2009/3/25 Bakul Shah <bakul+pl...@bitblocks.com>: > On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 09:00:58 EDT "Devon H. O'Dell" <devon.od...@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