From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 8 17:16:26 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org 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 7EE2016A423 for ; Wed, 8 Mar 2006 17:16:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from andre@freebsd.org) Received: from c00l3r.networx.ch (c00l3r.networx.ch [62.48.2.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C31743D78 for ; Wed, 8 Mar 2006 17:16:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from andre@freebsd.org) Received: (qmail 10222 invoked from network); 8 Mar 2006 17:14:55 -0000 Received: from c00l3r.networx.ch (HELO freebsd.org) ([62.48.2.2]) (envelope-sender ) by c00l3r.networx.ch (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 8 Mar 2006 17:14:55 -0000 Message-ID: <440F1167.B6704371@freebsd.org> Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2006 18:16:23 +0100 From: Andre Oppermann X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.8 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Phil Regnauld References: <1141836337.17213.21.camel@mayday.esat.net> <20060308170018.GF68655@catpipe.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, Florent Thoumie Subject: Re: FreeBSD Port of OpenOSPFD X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2006 17:16:26 -0000 Phil Regnauld wrote: > > Florent Thoumie (flz) writes: > > > > Since it may take some time before distfiles are propagated to all ftp > > servers, get the distfiles here [2] and put them in > > ${DISTDIR}/openospfd/ > > > > [1] http://people.freebsd.org/~flz/local/openospfd.shar > > [2] http://people.freebsd.org/~flz/distfiles/openospfd/ > > Nice! So now all we need it a port of xorp (http://www.xorp.org/), > and it will be quite a collection with quagga, zebra and open[bgp|ospf]d. Zebra is dead. Quagga is a fork of it which is actively being worked on. The original author of Zebra went to start his own company commercially selling and developing the codebase he already had. There hasn't been any meaningful activity on open-source Zebra for years. Xorp is still mostly a research suite of routing protocols and has a IMHO very strage configuration logic. OpenBGPD and OpenOSPFD are routing daemons made for BSD kernels, with security and scalability in mind. On top of that they are written with a lot of actual real-world network engineering experience behind it. The configuration system is far more practical, powerful and on purpose than the Cisco-CLI copy of Quagga. For example the complex filter configuration of an Internet-Exchange route server which takes about 20k of config on Quagga/Cisco can be expressed in about 8 short lines for OpenBGPD. -- Andre