[ale] turn linux into a router??

[Bao C. Ha]

Linux can certainly do BGP4, OSPF, ... which I don't think
is layer 2.  Look at
http://www.zebra.org/
http://www.gated.org/
http://bird.network.cz/

I am still waiting for the VLAN patch to be cleaned up and
go into the kernel source tree.

Bao

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ale at ale.org [mailto:owner-ale at ale.org]On Behalf 
> Of Joseph A.
> Knapka
> Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2001 10:08 AM
> To: Ned Williams
> Cc: ale at ale.org
> Subject: Re: [ale] turn linux into a router??
> 
> 
> Ned Williams wrote:
> > 
> > Out of curiosity,
> > 
> > Why do we call Linux a router in emails likes this, or for 
> that matter the LRP?
> > Routers, talk layer 2, maybe I missed it but
> > did linux recently gain support for BGP ,OSF or any other 
> layer 2 protocols?
> 
> I am reasonably certain that implementations of routing
> protocols exist for Linux, though I don't know anything
> at all about them. It would all be in user space, right?
> So shouldn't be difficult.
> 
> -- Joe
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