[Xorp-users] Vyatta

[Marcin Jessa]

On Thu, 30 Mar 2006 07:01:52 -0800
"Allan Leinwand" <leinwand@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi folks,
> 
>    Thanks to Kristian for the correct answer on our product which is
> available off our homepage. 

By "our product" you mean the one of vyatta.com ?

> The web interface has been in our source tree
> for sometime, although we have not officially announced that it is ready for
> beta testing.  We expect to be ready for folks to begin beta testing of the
> web interface in the next few weeks.

Great news :)

>    We're talked to XORP about taking our web interface and incorporating it
> into their project and will work with them to do this work.  We're also
> preparing to submit the work that we've done on other features, such as
> 802.1q VLAN support (which we announced last week).

As I understand this is pretty much Linux-centric, right?
I work with embedded Linux myself but I also work on a NetBSD and FreeBSD
based project and wonder if the changes/patches you're talking about are 
O.S independant or just for Linux.
Both the BSDs (along with the two other major BSDs - OpenBSD and DragonflyBSD)
support VLAN. They also support bridging (sharing much of the same code) and since
bridging is a part of the Vyatta fork it would be great to have it implemented as well.
Not to mention all the other great features like user configuration, DHCP, NTP and DNS support.

Cheers and thanks a lot for your answer.

Marcin.

> 
> On 3/30/06, Kristian Larsson <kristian@juniks.net> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 02:25:36PM +0000, Marcin Jessa wrote:
> > > Hi guys.
> > >
> > > Is www.vyatta.com a fork of XORP or does it exchange sources
> > > with the XORP project ?
> > > I tested their LiveCD and it seemed to have many features I
> > > could not see it the src tree of the "vanilla" XORP.
> > > Features like web service runnking lighttpd with a web interface.
> > > I realize vyatta is Linux-centric and uses custom build with busybox etc
> > > but would it be difficult to incorporate the web interface into XORP ?
> > >
> > > And that leads to my second question.
> > > How modular is XORP, would it be possible to compile it with support for
> > > just a few features and/or add new features like e.g configuration of
> > wireless devices?
> > Vyatta is utilizing XORP as a foundation. XORP is
> > the active routing component in Vyatta and the
> > xorpsh is utilized as well. The Vyatta team has
> > then added a lot of things, for example it is
> > possible to configure users, a few services,
> > firewalling rules and so on via the CLI. This is
> > not possible in the standard XORP package.
> >
> > Although I've worked a bit with the Vyatta
> > projects OFR I haven't come around to trying the
> > web interface so can't answer that bit.
> >
> > XORP is rather modular. There is currently no
> > support for configuration of wireless devices, but
> > this could be added if someone just sat down and
> > wrote some code :)
> >
> > Regards,
> >   Kristian.
> >
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