My planned work on networking stack

[Bruce M Simpson]

On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 01:07:58PM +0100, Brad Knowles wrote:
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> 	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/...

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