Re: [9fans] Plan 9 on Routers?

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

On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 4:05 PM, Rahul Murmuria <rahul.is.also@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Devon!
>
> On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 3:45 PM, Devon H. O'Dell <devon.odell@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>>
>
> Yes, I am a student. I qualify for GSoC but I was planning not to apply, as
> from where I see it, that brings in restrictions to the independence of
> thought. I am open to applying though, if this is a good enough (and small
> enough) idea for SoC.
>
>> 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.
>>
>
> /net on routers is something I have wanted for sometime now too. I am a
> member of the Glendix project (http://www.glendix.org) and have discussed
> the same ideas for Glendix recently.
>
> I was told that Inferno has ventured into such waters before. Are you sure
> there in no information on anyone trying Plan 9 on/as a Router?
>
>> --Devon
>>
>>
>
> @ Mauro
>
> On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 3:51 PM, J.R. Mauro <jrm8005@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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.
>
> I am willing to explore this area. Maybe if /net reaches every router, such
> metrics can be retrieved and exchanged between the routers like other router
> OSes do (or maybe better than they already do) ?
>
> I am planning to understand JUNOS using the documentation on their website,
> but I am not sure if I want to go though the CCNA books for Cisco IOS like
> you recommended. I have hardly any prior experience in the area, but initial
> design info finds me inclining towards JUNOS more.

As long as you understand what you need to implement the protocols,
the rest will fall into place. OSPF's spec is freely available, as is
RIP and BGP. There are some Cisco protocols that AFAIK are closed, but
I doubt you would need them.

>
> --
> Rahul Murmuria
>
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