Quoting "Ross Cameron" <[email protected]>: > On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 4:41 PM, Igor Sobrado <[email protected]>wrote: > >> On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 4:12 PM, Ross Cameron <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > Uhm perhaps to provide a better OSPF and BGP implementation to the for an >> OS >> > that is the OS of choice of millions of users and thousands of >> corporations? >> >> users and corporations should learn how to choose the operating >> systems that best fit their needs instead of choosing the "coolest >> operating system of the day" and adapt it to match their real needs. >> >> requirements come first, then you can choose the best tools to get >> that work done, not the reverse. why is it so difficult to >> understand? >> > > More often than not there are more reasons than the purely technical > motivations for different tools/technologies being used. > > Either way this is becoming an off topic OS flame war, personally I see a > portability layer for OpenBGP (as with the portability layer for OpenSSH) as > being a good thing. > It doesn't taint the OpenBSD sources and those that have a need to use > it on X platform can.
The problem with this is that the interface between the other OS and the OpenBSD based code needs to be correct and secure, else there will be bugs and people will complain that OpenBSD code isn't good, etc and in general, snipe. I just don't see the need to move the bgp code to another system, myself. --STeve Andre'
