[note: this is a copy of a mail i sent this to arch@, but someone suggested also asking net@ about this.]
hello, currently FreeBSD ships routed(8) and route6d(8) which implement the RIP resp. RIPng routing protocols. many years ago, it was fairly common for hosts to run these protocols to get their routing table and it made sense to ship an implementation with the operating systems. nowadays, these are fairly niche protocols and have been replaced in most networks by either static routing tables (mostly just a default route) or more modern routing protocols like IBGP/EBGP, OSPF or IS-IS. as such, i'm not convinced there's any value continuing to ship these with the OS. for people who do want to continue running RIP/RIPng, there are several implementations available in ports, such as net/bird2 and net/quagga. i'd like to submit a patch to remove both of these daemons from src. if there's some concern that people still want to use the BSD implementation of routed/route6d, i'm also willing to submit a port such as net/freebsd-routed containing the old code, in a similar way to how the removal of things like window(1) and telnetd(8) were handled. does anyone have an opinion on this?
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