[106286] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Software router state of the art
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sargun Dhillon)
Fri Jul 25 13:49:13 2008
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 10:49:00 -0700
From: Sargun Dhillon <sdhillon@decarta.com>
To: Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net>
In-Reply-To: <200807251643.m6PGh5nH006433@aurora.sol.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
It would be very useful if there was an effort from the telecom
community to develop a dynamic routing frontend like Quagga. The amount
of human work that it requires in order to build up a product is
enormous. If only someone with millions of dollars could donate
engineers. It would allow the deployment of small branch office systems
at a much lower cost.
Would you rather deploy a $3000 cisco edge box which is a unexpandable,
100 mbit piece of crap, or throw two $2000 Dell boxes and have a 1 GigE
platform?
Joe Greco wrote:
>> 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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