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"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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
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