On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 01:07:58PM +0100, Brad Knowles wrote: B> > Is there any plans about integration of BGP routing daemon (Zebra or B> > Quagga) into FreeBSD? With BGP routing daemon onboard, FreeBSD will be B> > a strong alternative against expensive commercial routers. I have B> > successfull experience of running FreeBSD STABLE with 2 full BGP views B> > for half a year. Modern i386 PC can route/filter/shape much more traffic B> > than expensive Cisco 36xx. I haven't yet compared with 7000 series... B> B> Talk to people who have real-world experience in running B> zebra/quagga in ISP environments with multiple upstreams and taking B> full views. The guy who is designing bgpd for OpenBSD gave a talk on
Haven't you understand? I'm the "person who has real-world experience in running zebra in ISP environments with multiple upstreams and taking full views". B> the subject at FOSDEM, and it was very enlightening to hear about the B> problems with zebra (which went commercial and the open source B> version basically hasn't been touched in years) and quagga (which is Browse zebra CVS to make sure that author is commiting bugfixes. For example: last commit to BGP code is done 2 weeks ago. B> a community of zebra users trying desperately to fix the worst of the B> bugs), and how he has used this information during his design of a I can't say a word about quagga, since I haven't use it, but I have positive experience with zebra (see above). B> If anything, I'd be inclined to look towards his work for OpenBSD B> and see if that could be imported into FreeBSD (and maybe improved, B> with contributions given back to him), rather than mess around with B> crap like zebra or quagga. I stop replying... Do not like flame. -- Totus tuus, Glebius. GLEBIUS-RIPN GLEB-RIPE _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
