On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 3:13 PM, Marc Espie <es...@nerim.net> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 05:50:58PM -0700, Barry Friedman wrote:
> > Hi, thanks everyone for the information, this helps give me an idea of
> > the scope and effort involved in getting OpenBGPd onto Linux. I'll
> > look at the OpenSSH project to see how the portability is added
> > without cluttering up the OpenBSD code.
> >
> > Also I am sorry, I did not mean to imply that OpenBGPd is not in a
> > source control system or released frequently. I was referring to the
> > quick and dirty Linux port I mentioned which is just in tarball form.
> > Kudos to those who did that porting work because it allows Linux users
> > to at least play around with OpenBGPd a bit but I was just trying to
> > see if there was a more organized and source-controlled effort yet to
> > work on OpenBGPd porting to non-BSD systems.
>
> I don't see the point in porting this to linux. Why settle for second-best
> ?
>
Uhm perhaps to provide a better OSPF and BGP implementation to the for an OS
that is the OS of choice of millions of users and thousands of corporations?
--
"Opportunity is most often missed by people because it is dressed in
overalls and looks like work."
Thomas Alva Edison
Inventor of 1093 patents, including:
The light bulb, phonogram and motion pictures.
