[Xorp-users] XORP on Solaris??
Dave Price
dave.price@aber.ac.uk
Fri, 04 Feb 2005 17:52:43 +0000
Dear Atanu and All,
atanu@ICSI.Berkeley.EDU said:
> We haven't ported XORP to Solaris and from the silence it doesn't seem
> that anybody else has either.
And I had no "private" emails from anyone in response
to my earlier email.
atanu@ICSI.Berkeley.EDU said:
> We are in the process of putting in XORP routers at our border for
> IPv4 and IPv6 (Unicast and Multicast). The PCs will run FreeBSD which
> is our main development platform. We happen to have choosen Dell rack
> mount machines but I think Suns with AMD processors would have worked
> just as well.
Ou plans are evolving a bit and I gather our current "favourite"
for hardware (for various funding related reasons) is likely
to go in the direction of a SPARC powered Sun. I gather the current
proposed one has four in-built high speed ether interfaces
and we are considering adding another four port board as well.
atanu@ICSI.Berkeley.EDU said:
> We have been adding ACL support to XORP but rules cannot yet be placed
> in the configuration file.
I spotted some chat on the maillist in this direction the other day.
How hard do you think it would be to "port" XORP
to Sparc Solaris?? Do you have a lot of operating system
dependencies in the code?? Would there be any value
in the "academic interest / research" direction to attempt
to do such a port? I wonder if we might be able
to contribute and how much prior low-level OS
experience one would need to attempt such work??
Comments anyone??
Dave Price
Dave Price