[157836] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Whats so difficult about ISSU
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Miquel van Smoorenburg)
Sun Nov 11 05:47:42 2012
Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2012 11:46:44 +0100
From: "Miquel van Smoorenburg" <mikevs@xs4all.net>
To: randy@psg.com
In-Reply-To: <m2lie9nhko.wl%randy@psg.com>
Cc: , nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
In article <xs4all.m2lie9nhko.wl%randy@psg.com> you write:
>linux has become a fad in the vendor community. it seems to lend
>legitimacy to their products in some way, witness this discussion.
>but linux has the gpl poison. so, any code that they wish to keep
>proprietary is in userland.
Which isn't really a problem, none of the control plane stuff needs
to run in the kernel. The only thing that needs to run in the
kernel is the device driver(s) to talk to the forwarding plane
hardware, but if you use ethernet or infiniband for that
communication you don't need any proprietary drivers.
Mike.
