[106284] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Software router state of the art
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Greco)
Fri Jul 25 12:43:15 2008
From: Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:43:05 -0500 (CDT)
In-Reply-To: <4889F4CF.8080602@sharpone.net> from "Justin Sharp" at Jul 25,
2008 09:44:15 AM
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
> Last thing to say is, I haven't tried upgrading since Vyatta abandoned
> the XORP platform and moved to the Quagga platform, but I'm guessing
> (based on experience w/ Quagga) that they have a lot fewer of these
> quirks that I've described.
Quagga is pretty decent, but it is not uncommon for serious bugs to go
unaddressed for a long time. For example, this bug renders Quagga
nearly unusable for OSPF on FreeBSD 7,
http://bugzilla.quagga.net/show_bug.cgi?id=420
which resulted in some finger-pointing, but the last I heard, it was
due to a kernel interface change where FreeBSD multicast code had been
rewritten and was DTRT, while Linux was doing something else.
This is probably still better than the XORP platform, but it is
unfortunate.
... JG
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