On Mon, 4 Aug 2003, James R. Leu wrote:
> I would like to see a much more formal 'porting-layer'. If you
> would like to see an example of what I mean, take a look at my
> 'ldp-portable' package. The guts of the package are a library
> which implement RFC 3036 (Label Distribution Protocol for MPLS).
> It uses a 'porting-layer' or well defined API, to interact with the
> underlying system. In this case I have implemented a layer to
> interact with zebra. In the pass I've implemented layers that
> interact with the linux kernel, and the freebsd kernel.
>
> ldp-portable is part of http://mpls-linux.sf.net/
Do you have a tarball available for download, to save us having to
install and play with perforce?
> If people are serious about architecting quagga to be more OS
> independent I would be happy to start a discussion about it and
> keep track of the results of that discussion.
Sure. Want to describe your ideas a bit?
Also, I'm going to move this discussion to quagga-dev - Cc updated.
regards,
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> I would like to see a much more formal 'porting-layer'. If you
> would like to see an example of what I mean, take a look at my
> 'ldp-portable' package. The guts of the package are a library
> which implement RFC 3036 (Label Distribution Protocol for MPLS).
> It uses a 'porting-layer' or well defined API, to interact with the
> underlying system. In this case I have implemented a layer to
> interact with zebra. In the pass I've implemented layers that
> interact with the linux kernel, and the freebsd kernel.
>
> ldp-portable is part of http://mpls-linux.sf.net/
Do you have a tarball available for download, to save us having to
install and play with perforce?
> If people are serious about architecting quagga to be more OS
> independent I would be happy to start a discussion about it and
> keep track of the results of that discussion.
Sure. Want to describe your ideas a bit?
Also, I'm going to move this discussion to quagga-dev - Cc updated.
regards,
--
Paul Jakma paul@clubi.ie paul@jakma.org Key ID: 64A2FF6A
warning: do not ever send email to spam@dishone.st
Fortune:
"I'll rob that rich person and give it to some poor deserving slob.
That will *prove* I'm Robin Hood."
-- Daffy Duck, "Robin Hood Daffy", [1958, Chuck Jones]