OpenBSD Project Announces OpenBGPD

44BSD writes "As noted at undeadly, the OpenBSD Project has announced an BSD-licensed implementation of the Border Gateway Protocol, BGP. Project details, design goals, documentation, and more are at the project web site. BGP is documented in RFC 1771. Lucky for Cisco, BSD is dying..."

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[what about]

For all of you that wants a broader view of the routing state of the art you may have a look at Zebra routing engine

Re:BSD License

[Moskit]

Golly, if you had the source, you might be able to do something like... hmmm... I dunno... disable the default password, maybe?

Golly, if you bothered to actually read the advisory, you would have found the sections "Software Versions and Fixes" and "Obtaining Fixed Software".

While Cisco is closed source, at least they do publish (as in "make public") security advisories and provide quality tested and verified fixes.

In "open source" world you would probably have had N fixes from X different people, each claiming that theirs is the best. If you want to see a real open source mess, check out Zaurus - just as an example there is a large number of libSDL ports, each different, each having different problems, each compatible with different games, none fully usable.

"Open Source" has become nowadays a real(tm) marketing term. In many cases it just demonstrates theoretical possibilities of doing something, not the reality. It is just like those TV Sell channels when they say "our EZkook enables you to prepare thousands of fantastic meals!", everybody drools, but a tiny portion of buyers actually ever uses the tool for something more than mashed potatoes. Still, they get excited thinking about the possibilities...

Why not work on a current project, I dont get it

[mnmn]

Zebra and Quagga already exist. They are supposed to provide BGP among other protocols. I just dont get why they dont join those projects to improve them rather than fork out a new one.

Improving the architecture of say Quagga will be more beneficial and probably welcome than forking out your own. It would also keep the code portable while supporting rip, ospf isis etc. I'd love to see a secure version of Quagga for OpenBSD, sounds much better than an all OpenBSD suite.