Hi Devon!
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 3:45 PM, Devon H. O'Dell <devon.odell@gmail.com> wrote:
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> 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
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@ 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