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Date:      Tue, 18 Feb 2003 15:57:26 -0600
From:      "Joseph T. Klein" <jtk@titania.net>
To:        Max Khon <fjoe@iclub.nsu.ru>
Cc:        Vincent Jardin <vjardin@wanadoo.fr>, freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: support of iso networking
Message-ID:  <F793BA55-438B-11D7-BA9E-003065BA9B36@titania.net>
In-Reply-To: <20030219025456.C12961@iclub.nsu.ru>

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I would encourage you all to get this working. Looking at the NetBSD
CVS it looks pretty stable.

So does Juniper hack this in when they build JunOS?

http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/~checkout~/src/sys/netiso/ 
README?rev=1.1.16.1&content-type=text/plain

"In case you were wondering why this code is still present:

The ISO (or OSI) stack is still in use by many router vendors (e.g.,  
using
IS-IS the OSI equivalent of OSPF, to carry IP routes).

Chris.
chopps@netbsd.org"

On Tuesday, February 18, 2003, at 02:54  PM, Max Khon wrote:

> hi, there!
>
> On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 10:09:44PM +0100, Vincent Jardin wrote:
>
>>> are you talking about src/sys/netiso/ code?
>>> it has been there but was removed about 7 years ago because nobody  
>>> wanted
>>> to maintain it. You can take a look at it via cvsweb.
>>
>> Now it is not possible to use easily an ISIS routing protocol with  
>> FreeBSD
>> ;-( For example, the Zebra's isisd is using a hack based on the BPF.  
>> Are
>> there any people who have been trying to port netiso from FreeBSD 2.X  
>> to
>> FreeBSD 4 or FreeBSD 5 ?
>
> I guess there is no developers who have netiso in use.
> I think it would be easier to port NetBSD stuff than trying to revive
> our own netiso bits.
> I can commit the patches if you will make them and once they will work  
> for you
> (I think they will not hurt anyone).
>
> /fjoe
>
>
>
--
Joseph T. Klein


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