Zebra is open source TCP/IP routing software that is similar to Cisco’s Internetworking Operating System (IOS). Flexible and powerful, it can handle routing protocols such as Routing Information Protocol (RIP), Open Shortest Path First (OSPF), Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), and all of their various flavors. This article shows how to set up Zebra and use it to manage routes dynamically in conjunction with real Cisco hardware.
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I prefere the robust architecture of OpenBSD’s bgpd.
It simply works. The code is clean and fresh.
Zebra looks quite dead to me. ( New release zebra-0.94 is out
[2003/11/27] )
Perhaps IBM wants to give Henning some money for making a portable code version of OpenBGPD?
OpenBSD is the CISCO killer in town.
Zebra looks quite dead to me. ( New release zebra-0.94 is out
[2003/11/27] )
Zebra-0.94 is newer than the version used in the article, which struck me as odd. Then I noticed the date of the article, 08 Oct 2003.
I fail to see the newsworhtiness of an article which is over a year old. Seems a shame that stories can’t be modded down.
A quick update to my last post:-
It appears that Zebra is dead and has been replaced by Quagga which I thought was a nice touch of irony (for those who don’t know the now extinct Quagga was an animal similiar to the Zebra). A bit like calling the next version of OS-X ‘Sabertooth Tiger’.
See http://www.quagga.net/
I think http://www.quagga.net is an active fork, of the dormant http://www.zebra.org ? (opensource irony at work as the quagga was an extinct sub-species of zebra)
>Zebra looks quite dead to me. ( New release zebra-0.94 is out
> [2003/11/27] )
Not really:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=zebra&m=109640155206428&w=2
<img src=http://www.linuks.mine.nu/zebra.jpg>
i’ve been meaning to try MikroTik. it’s a cheap router OS. there is even a limited free version.
the article may have been prompted by the one in linux journal which describes how you can make your own linux powered router (hardware as well as software project).
http://www.linuxjournal.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=NS-lj-issue…
Perhaps they should have talked to the guy at http://www.linuxrouter.org/ before doing a linux router project.
Why should they do that? Linuxrouters.org died before this article did.
LRP == R.I.P. (1997-2002)
The operating system that helped to create the embedded Linux marketplace, the Linux Router Project (LRP), is dead.
This would be interesting if someone built an easy to use interface for it.
Who would trust linux to major routing responsibilities on anthing other they a small lan?
Smartpatrol, you troll đŸ˜‰
Yeah people already did. Webmin can manage it
Umm, I think that was his point.
>>Why should they do that? Linuxrouters.org died before this article did.
LRP == R.I.P. (1997-2002)
The operating system that helped to create the embedded Linux marketplace, the Linux Router Project (LRP), is dead.<<
Nice article. That is the whole point it is up here. Instead of trying to hate on when it was written, why dont you appreciate it for its value.