On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 05:50:58PM -0700, Barry Friedman wrote: > Hi, thanks everyone for the information, this helps give me an idea of > the scope and effort involved in getting OpenBGPd onto Linux. I'll > look at the OpenSSH project to see how the portability is added > without cluttering up the OpenBSD code. > > Also I am sorry, I did not mean to imply that OpenBGPd is not in a > source control system or released frequently. I was referring to the > quick and dirty Linux port I mentioned which is just in tarball form. > Kudos to those who did that porting work because it allows Linux users > to at least play around with OpenBGPd a bit but I was just trying to > see if there was a more organized and source-controlled effort yet to > work on OpenBGPd porting to non-BSD systems.
I don't see the point in porting this to linux. Why settle for second-best ? ... don't bother answering, it's an obvious troll, but I guess it summarizes that none of us would seriously consider running this kind of critical network stuff on anything but OpenBSD.