On Mar 25, 6:14 am, rahul.is.a...@gmail.com (Rahul Murmuria) wrote: > 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. >
I didn't understand IP 'till I read the Plan9 source code. In my opinion, it should replace the RFCs as the standard. If you can't implement your *new* protocol with the existing interfaces, then I suggest you should follow the linux route.
