PC Routers (was Re: /24s run amuck)

Wed Jan 14 23:07:56 UTC 2004

On 14 Jan 2004, at 17:49, jlewis at lewis.org wrote:

> On Wed, 14 Jan 2004, Stephen J. Wilcox wrote:
>
>> Have been discussing PCs for a bit but as yet not deployed one, as I
>> understand it a *nix based PC running Zebra will work pretty fine but
>> has the constraints that:
>>
>> o) It has no features - not a problem for a lot of purposes
>
> Which "no features"?  I haven't played with zebra yet, but my
> understanding is that it supports a large subset of the IOS BGP config
> language including application of route-maps to incoming/outgoing 
> routes,
> and therefore things like prepending, setting metrics or preference, 
> etc.
> Am I mistaken?

It is my impression that Zebra is pretty feature-rich.

There are some things that are difficult for Zebra to do since they 
relate to (absent) capabilities in the host kernel, though; RFC 2385 
requires the host to support the TCP MD5 Signature option, for example, 
and most do not.

Joe