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At 01:35 AM 6/8/98 +0000, brad wrote: >> So far, I've had a large number of questions about a statement I made here >> in NANOG. The statement was made in passing, while I was looking for >> sources for something that would run BGP4 and allow us to transition from >> static single-homing to dynamic multi-homing. Rather than answer, yet many >> more inquiries, I am posting the answer here in NANOG, to fore-stall >> further such inquiries. >> >> MHSC prefers open-source whenever we can get it and prefer to run >> reference-standard code. This is why we run sendmail v8.8.8, qpopper, BIND, >> and others. > >I see no need for open source when it is quite obvious you do not >understand anything that you are compiling. Before inserting your foot further into your insulting mouth, visit my personal web-site. We also have a couple of PhD CS's around here somewhere, oh yeah, they're working on paid-for commercial projects. How much money have you stolen from the NSF to-date? >> We are a Caldera VAR and our servers are built up from Caldera >> Open Linux Standard edition, with about 30 add-ons <groan>. We *do* have >> BRU, Netscape, and other commercial binaries that have been bought, but not >> before attempting to find acceptable reference-standards. We have also >> provided DewPoint/Caldera with input towards an Enterprise Server >> distribution for Linux. >> >Linux.. the choice of a gnutered generation. Bigotry and snobry, a sure sign of insecurity and penus envy. What's the matter, didn't get laid last week-end? >> Anyway, we've applied for an ASN and ran into the BGP4 requirement. Ergo, >> we were looking for the reference-standard BGP4 implementation, which is >> GateD. We (I) was *very* surprised at the attitude exhibited at >> <http://www.gated.org>. Very much anti-commercial. But, that does not >> matter to me as I have $other$ things to worry about (Paying the rent >> around here is one of them <sigh>). Ergo, having run *that* trail to >> ground, I posted a query here in NANOG, that Dean Anderson, Shane Wright, >> Craig Labovit, and others have answered. > >Well, you can probably write your own BGP implementation in about >a month. This would cost you considerably less than $110k assuming >a conservative valuation of your time ($4.25-$5.00/hr). Buddy boy, you can't afford me <sheesh>! >> I now have gated v3.5.9, for Linux, and am building it now. I'll probably >> run into trouble, as I do with most things that don't have a configure >> script, or have an otherwise non-standard build process (Why is it that >> *only* the academic originated stuff is such a PITA? <sigh>). > >LINUX#make >sh: make: command not found >LINUX#Ihatethesefuckingcomputersasdf3252r23t2g >sh: Ihatethesefuckingcomputersasdf3252r23t2g: command not found >LINUX#goddamn these academic types >etc.. > Jeez, you can't even spell "damned" right. Also, in that context God is capitalized. Now, if Bradly wants to really play with something easy, install Apache-SSL.mod-perl on a Linux box. Or anything else with a configure script. ___________________________________________________ Roeland M.J. Meyer, ISOC (InterNIC RM993) e-mail: <mailto:[email protected]>[email protected] Internet phone: hawk.mhsc.com Personal web pages: <http://www.mhsc.com/~rmeyer>www.mhsc.com/~rmeyer Company web-site: <http://www.mhsc.com/>www.mhsc.com/ ___________________________________________ SecureMail from MHSC.NET is coming soon!
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