Re: [9fans] Plan 9 on Routers?

["Devon H. O'Dell" <devon.odell@gmail.com>]

2009/3/25 Bakul Shah <bakul+plan9@bitblocks.com>:
> On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 09:00:58 EDT "Devon H. O'Dell" <devon.odell@gmail.com>  wrote:
>>                                                  While creating an
>> entire routing suite (such as Zebra/Quagga) is probably outside of the
>> scope of a 3 month project, I think a diligent student could probably
>> do something useful with OSPF or BGP. It's entirely possible that a 3
>> month project could consist of analyzing Plan 9's ability to function
>> in this environment and making changes to facilitate the
>> implementation of routing protocols. Or creating a packet filter.
>
> Thinking a bit more about it, extending /net/iproute to allow
> routing metrics may be what is needed for porting/building
> something like openospfd or openbgpd.  Basically
> /net/{iproute,ipifc} etc need to do more or less what a
> routing socket does under *BSD (man 4 route).  Of course,
> there may be other things missing in the p9 IP stack that may
> get in the way but now I think porting something like
> openospfd in a summer is doable.

Yeah, that's what I meant to imply :) Thanks for clarifying that :)

--dho