From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <9511f83e0903241211j711f29c7y8085d9a8744d9a87@mail.gmail.com> References: <9511f83e0903241211j711f29c7y8085d9a8744d9a87@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 15:45:44 -0400 Message-ID: <9ab217670903241245o1893f818vb01ae7e30ab4d8cf@mail.gmail.com> From: "Devon H. O'Dell" To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan 9 on Routers? Topicbox-Message-UUID: c2896c42-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 2009/3/24 Rahul Murmuria : > 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=A0using 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. > > Has anyone any experience with using Plan 9 on routers? 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. 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. --Devon > -- > Rahul Murmuria > > [1] http://searchenterpriselinux.techtarget.com/tip/1,289483,sid39_gci110= 2834,00.html > [2] http://www.quagga.net/docs/quagga.html#SEC3 > >