Hi Michael, Can you provided a precise definition of "walled garden", as well as, define the bi-directional connectivity rules with a few bullets (hopefully less than 5). I fear there may be more than one view of this (or possibly I'm the only one ;^).
Thanks, Acee On Jan 13, 2012, at 3:40 PM, Michael Richardson wrote: > > > >>>>>> "Acee" == Acee Lindem <[email protected]> writes: >>> The problem with zOSPF is that it doesn't meet our requirements. >>> It doesn't detect borders (unless the border happens to have >>> another zOSPF router with the wrong password), > > Acee> While this should be part of the solution, I don't see this as > Acee> something that it necessarily should be built into the routing > Acee> protocol. > >>> it requires configuration (for the password), > > Acee> How does any protocol do authentication w/o a shared key? If > Acee> you don't do authentication, you don't need a key. > > Yes, this is a general problem, which is why I keep asking what are our > real requirements here. > >>> it doesn't handle walled gardens (a requirement being debated), > > Acee> I don't fully understand this requirement and how it would be > Acee> handled w/o configuration. > > I don't understand this criticism. Why are walled gardens different > than multiple ISPs? > >>> it's not lightweight. > > Acee> A commercial router implementation supporting all the features > Acee> including OSPF TE and VPNs is certainly not > Acee> lightweight. However, I just downloaded the latest quagga > Acee> suite and it is only about 21K there. > > rtr3-[/usr/pkg/sbin] mcr 10007 %size ospf6d /usr/pkg/lib/libzebra.so.0 > text data bss dec hex filename > 221476 11328 3132 235936 399a0 ospf6d > 272449 23848 3120 299417 49199 /usr/pkg/lib/libzebra.so.0 > > No all of libzebra might really be used. So 11K code, plus up to 23K. > I think that half of the code can be ripped out (and I wish I had time > to do). > > -- > ] He who is tired of Weird Al is tired of life! | firewalls > [ > ] Michael Richardson, Sandelman Software Works, Ottawa, ON |net > architect[ > ] [email protected] http://www.sandelman.ottawa.on.ca/ |device > driver[ > Kyoto Plus: watch the video <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzx1ycLXQSE> > then sign the petition. _______________________________________________ homenet mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/homenet
