Re: [9fans] Plan 9 on Routers?

["J.R. Mauro" <jrm8005@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 3:45 PM, Devon H. O'Dell <devon.odell@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/3/24 Rahul Murmuria <rahul.is.also@gmail.com>:
>> I was poking around for what it would take to get there. I found
>> this[1]. I am basically looking to have a way to do routing using Plan
>> 9. You can already do that on any standard Linux using Quagga[2] based
>> on GNU Zebra.
>>
>> Maybe there is a filesystem that exposes the kernel routing table to
>> user space for certain routing algorithm scripts to hack upon?
>>
>> My objective is to be able to implement a new routing protocol on a
>> router created using a standard computer with multiple NIC cards,
>> maybe on a model P2P type network? I also would love to see what
>> having /net on a router would enable us to do.
>>
>> Has anyone any experience with using Plan 9 on routers?
>
> Are you a student? This kind of stuff has interested me quite a bit in
> Plan 9 (though more from a packet classification standpoint -- read:
> firewalling), and it seems like a nifty project for GSoC.
>
> As far as I'm aware, there is nothing similar to the OSPF/BGP/RIP
> support directly in Plan 9. I am pretty sure Charles has written a RIP
> daemon that is in sources somewhere.

RIP is fairly simplistic, I wonder if Plan 9 exposes enough
information via /net to actually implement OSPF. You need to know
load-balancing, bandwidth and "distance" metrics that RIP doesn't care
about.

>
> --Devon
>
>> --
>> Rahul Murmuria
>>
>> [1] http://searchenterpriselinux.techtarget.com/tip/1,289483,sid39_gci1102834,00.html
>> [2] http://www.quagga.net/docs/quagga.html#SEC3
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