On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 3:45 PM, Devon H. O'Dell <devon.od...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2009/3/24 Rahul Murmuria <rahul.is.a...@gmail.com>: >> 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 using 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.
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. > > --Devon > >> -- >> Rahul Murmuria >> >> [1] >> http://searchenterpriselinux.techtarget.com/tip/1,289483,sid39_gci1102834,00.html >> [2] http://www.quagga.net/docs/quagga.html#SEC3 >> >> > >
