From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <9ab217670903241245o1893f818vb01ae7e30ab4d8cf@mail.gmail.com> References: <9511f83e0903241211j711f29c7y8085d9a8744d9a87@mail.gmail.com> <9ab217670903241245o1893f818vb01ae7e30ab4d8cf@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 16:05:08 -0400 Message-ID: <9511f83e0903241305p6ea4a0c5k582582e87443577d@mail.gmail.com> From: Rahul Murmuria To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=000e0cd30b525e58d40465e2e6fd Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan 9 on Routers? Topicbox-Message-UUID: c341861a-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 --000e0cd30b525e58d40465e2e6fd Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi Devon! On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 3:45 PM, Devon H. O'Dell 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 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. -- Rahul Murmuria --000e0cd30b525e58d40465e2e6fd Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi Devon!

On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 3:45 PM, Devon H. O'Dell <<= a href=3D"mailto:devon.odell@gmail.com">devon.odell@gmail.com> wrote= :
>
> Are you a student? This kind of stuff has interested me q= uite 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 appl= y, 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 sma= ll 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 writte= n 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 s= ure 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
> in= formation via /net to actually implement OSPF. You need to know
> loa= d-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 rout= ers like other router OSes do (or maybe better than they already do) ?

I am planning to understand JUNOS using the documentation on their webs= ite, 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 i= nitial design info finds me inclining towards JUNOS more.

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Rahul Murmuria

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