[66488] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: PC Routers (was Re: /24s run amuck)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Abley)
Wed Jan 14 18:08:49 2004
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0401141730260.1212-100000@redhat1.mmaero.com>
Cc: "Stephen J. Wilcox" <steve@telecomplete.co.uk>, nanog@merit.edu
From: Joe Abley <jabley@isc.org>
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 18:07:56 -0500
To: jlewis@lewis.org
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On 14 Jan 2004, at 17:49, jlewis@lewis.org wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Jan 2004, Stephen J. Wilcox wrote:
>
>> Have been discussing PCs for a bit but as yet not deployed one, as I
>> understand it a *nix based PC running Zebra will work pretty fine but
>> has the constraints that:
>>
>> o) It has no features - not a problem for a lot of purposes
>
> Which "no features"? I haven't played with zebra yet, but my
> understanding is that it supports a large subset of the IOS BGP config
> language including application of route-maps to incoming/outgoing
> routes,
> and therefore things like prepending, setting metrics or preference,
> etc.
> Am I mistaken?
It is my impression that Zebra is pretty feature-rich.
There are some things that are difficult for Zebra to do since they
relate to (absent) capabilities in the host kernel, though; RFC 2385
requires the host to support the TCP MD5 Signature option, for example,
and most do not.
Joe
