From owner-freebsd-net Fri Feb 21 9:23:42 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2A7237B401 for ; Fri, 21 Feb 2003 09:23:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp-relay.omnis.com (smtp-relay.omnis.com [216.239.128.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1BBD43FE0 for ; Fri, 21 Feb 2003 09:23:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from homer.stbernard.com (corp-2.ipinc.com [199.245.188.2]) by smtp-relay.omnis.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9AA4743A71; Fri, 21 Feb 2003 09:22:12 -0800 (PST) From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC To: "Joseph T. Klein" , Garrett Wollman Subject: Re: support of iso networking Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 09:30:21 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG References: <5C61A316-4450-11D7-A4C1-003065BA9B36@titania.net> In-Reply-To: <5C61A316-4450-11D7-A4C1-003065BA9B36@titania.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200302210930.21299.wes@softweyr.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wednesday 19 February 2003 01:23 pm, Joseph T. Klein wrote: > > On Wednesday, February 19, 2003, at 03:13 PM, Garrett Wollman wrote: > > < > > > 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). -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message