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Re: Software router state of the art

  • From: Sargun Dhillon
  • Date: Fri Jul 25 13:49:09 2008
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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