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Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 15:09:33 +0000
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan 9 on Routers?
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On Mar 25, 6:14�am, rahul.is.a...@gmail.com (Rahul Murmuria) wrote:
> 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.
>

I didn't understand IP 'till I read the Plan9 source code. In my
opinion, it should replace the RFCs as the standard. If you can't
implement your *new* protocol with the existing interfaces, then I
suggest you should follow the linux route.