Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 09:30:21 -0800 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: "Joseph T. Klein" <jtk@titania.net>, Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu> Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: support of iso networking Message-ID: <200302210930.21299.wes@softweyr.com> In-Reply-To: <5C61A316-4450-11D7-A4C1-003065BA9B36@titania.net> References: <5C61A316-4450-11D7-A4C1-003065BA9B36@titania.net>
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On Wednesday 19 February 2003 01:23 pm, Joseph T. Klein wrote:
>
> On Wednesday, February 19, 2003, at 03:13 PM, Garrett Wollman wrote:
> > <<On Tue, 18 Feb 2003 09:40:58 -0600, "Joseph T. Klein"
> >
> > <jtk@titania.net> said:
> >> Has anyone done work to incorporate the ISO networking code
> >> into FreeBSD? This has been done for NetBSD. It is a required
> >> component if one wishes to natively support ISO based protocols
> >> such as IS-IS.
> >
> > For the limited value that OSI protocols have today, it is a much
> > better use of resources to simply integrate the protocol stack into
> > the application. IIRC, IS-IS runs directly on top of CLNP, so all
> > of the ISO-TP and TCP-over-CLNP stuff is irrelevant to it.
> >
> > We chose a long time ago to drop support for OSI protocols because
> > the network stack was evolving significantly and nobody wanted to
> > carry that deadweight around.
>
> On the other hand the NetBSD folks don't see it as dead weight
> and systems that may need to talk with core routers that use
> IS-IS end up on other platforms.
>
> Perhaps this is why Arbor uses NetBSD.
Perhaps so. This is one of the strengths offered by the BSD community:
choice (aka differentiation).
--
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Wes Peters Softweyr LLC
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