On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 01:07:58PM +0100, Brad Knowles wrote:
[..]
> His only issue with using exclusively PC equipment for handling
> routing is all those strange WAN protocols and cards for which
> hardware cards are rarely available beyond vendors like cisco or
> Juniper. That's why he's going pure Ethernet protocols/hardware
> throughout all his networks, including his upstream feeds, so that he
> can dump all that expensive ancient legacy routing hardware.
That won't necessarily scale... but YMMV...
> If anything, I'd be inclined to look towards his work for OpenBSD
> and see if that could be imported into FreeBSD (and maybe improved,
> with contributions given back to him), rather than mess around with
> crap like zebra or quagga.
The last time I looked at his code it looked pretty much like a straight
lift from the MRTD tree. This was a few months ago... and this was brief...
> Oh, and it would be nice if someone somewhere started thinking
> about a mesh routing implementation for *BSD, either AODV or
> something else.
//depot/user/bms/aodv/aodvd/...
BMS
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