Re: removing RIP/RIPng (routed/route6d)

From: Ed Maste <emaste_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2024 13:24:24 UTC 
On Mon, 15 Apr 2024 at 16:49, Lexi Winter <lexi@le-fay.org> wrote:
>
> currently FreeBSD ships routed(8) and route6d(8) which implement the RIP
> resp. RIPng routing protocols.
> ...
> i'd like to submit a patch to remove both of these daemons from src.  if
> there's some concern that people still want to use the BSD
> implementation of routed/route6d, i'm also willing to submit a port such
> as net/freebsd-routed containing the old code, in a similar way to how
> the removal of things like window(1) and telnetd(8) were handled.

I agree that retiring these makes sense, and I've added a note about
the proposed removal to https://wiki.freebsd.org/DeprecationPlan.

Once there's consensus we should add deprecation notices to the man
pages and MFC those to stable/14 and stable/13.