From: Bakul Shah <bakul+plan9@bitblocks.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan 9 on Routers?
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 08:47:21 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090325154721.1E2785B29@mail.bitblocks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 25 Mar 2009 09:00:58 EDT." <9ab217670903250600h48d64c13t9276e42c07a9a222@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 09:00:58 EDT "Devon H. O'Dell" <devon.odell@gmail.com> wrote:
> While creating an
> entire routing suite (such as Zebra/Quagga) is probably outside of the
> scope of a 3 month project, I think a diligent student could probably
> do something useful with OSPF or BGP. It's entirely possible that a 3
> month project could consist of analyzing Plan 9's ability to function
> in this environment and making changes to facilitate the
> implementation of routing protocols. Or creating a packet filter.
Thinking a bit more about it, extending /net/iproute to allow
routing metrics may be what is needed for porting/building
something like openospfd or openbgpd. Basically
/net/{iproute,ipifc} etc need to do more or less what a
routing socket does under *BSD (man 4 route). Of course,
there may be other things missing in the p9 IP stack that may
get in the way but now I think porting something like
openospfd in a summer is doable.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-25 15:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-24 19:11 Rahul Murmuria
2009-03-24 19:35 ` [9fans] drawterm font Benjamin Huntsman
2009-03-24 19:52 ` erik quanstrom
2009-03-24 20:01 ` Russ Cox
2009-03-24 20:12 ` Benjamin Huntsman
2009-03-24 19:45 ` [9fans] Plan 9 on Routers? Devon H. O'Dell
2009-03-24 19:51 ` J.R. Mauro
2009-03-24 20:05 ` Rahul Murmuria
2009-03-24 20:33 ` J.R. Mauro
2009-03-24 21:35 ` Bakul Shah
2009-03-24 23:00 ` Rahul Murmuria
2009-03-24 23:20 ` erik quanstrom
2009-03-25 6:35 ` Rahul Murmuria
2009-03-25 10:41 ` Eris Discordia
2009-03-25 13:00 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2009-03-25 13:25 ` erik quanstrom
2009-03-25 13:31 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2009-03-25 15:47 ` Bakul Shah [this message]
2009-03-25 15:59 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2009-03-26 4:37 ` lucio
2009-03-26 13:26 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2009-03-24 19:58 ` erik quanstrom
2009-03-25 15:09 ` jetskean
2009-03-25 15:40 ` andrey mirtchovski
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