Misc,
I've been working on a IP-TV multicast Video deployment over RPR (802.17)
at work and it has consumed a ton of my time both free and work which has
pulled me away from staying current with whats shaken in my most favorite
OS. While working with our encryption vendor last night (28 hour day so
far) I had plenty of time to catch up on some good reading and started
looking at what I could do to get a PIM OpenBSD router rocking. I found
that a lot of pimd stuff was gone and what seems to be the current PIM
implementation is http://www.xorp.org/. I did see that Claudio Jeker
noted this was in ports back when 3.7 was released. We are already
testing the OpenBGPd and OpenOSPFd in our network with OpenBSD and my love
with OpenBSD started with ipfw and then pf (I'm a network g33k at heart
can you tell?)
-= My question is really to the developers and its this =-
I know you guys are busy working on what will become OpenBSD 3.9 so in no
way do I mean to distract, but is anyone working on a OpenPIMd concept on
the side (like you guys really need more side projects) or is there any
hope for a OpenPIMd in the future (similar to a OpenOSPFd and OpenBGPd).
I'm going to start playing with DVMRP now that I see I can use mrouted
with our current PIM routers and hopefull get a tunnel up to transport the
multicast traffic to a OpenBSD gateway. This doesn't create a PIM router
but it does give me more features to learn/play with on OpenBSD which is
always a goal of mine.
Thanks for any input anyone might have,
Jason Houx
