On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 01:07:58PM +0100, Brad Knowles wrote: [..] > His only issue with using exclusively PC equipment for handling > routing is all those strange WAN protocols and cards for which > hardware cards are rarely available beyond vendors like cisco or > Juniper. That's why he's going pure Ethernet protocols/hardware > throughout all his networks, including his upstream feeds, so that he > can dump all that expensive ancient legacy routing hardware.
That won't necessarily scale... but YMMV... > If anything, I'd be inclined to look towards his work for OpenBSD > and see if that could be imported into FreeBSD (and maybe improved, > with contributions given back to him), rather than mess around with > crap like zebra or quagga. The last time I looked at his code it looked pretty much like a straight lift from the MRTD tree. This was a few months ago... and this was brief... > Oh, and it would be nice if someone somewhere started thinking > about a mesh routing implementation for *BSD, either AODV or > something else. //depot/user/bms/aodv/aodvd/... BMS _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"