Re: [9fans] Plan 9 on Routers?

[Rahul Murmuria <rahul.is.also@gmail.com>]

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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.

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Rahul Murmuria

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