Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 15:23:16 -0600 From: "Joseph T. Klein" <jtk@titania.net> To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu> Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: support of iso networking Message-ID: <5C61A316-4450-11D7-A4C1-003065BA9B36@titania.net> In-Reply-To: <200302192113.h1JLD8X8093608@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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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. 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. > > -GAWollman > > > -- Joseph T. Klein Senior Network Engineer/Peering Coordinator Adelphia Backbone Team PSTN: +1 414 628 3380 INOC-DBA: 19548*585 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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