At Tue, 28 Dec 2004 14:59:29 -0800, Brooks Davis wrote: > > [1 <text/plain; us-ascii (quoted-printable)>] > [cc'ing doc since I think this is really a doc issue. Please trim your > reply list as needed] > Sorry to chime in late on this. I suspect the assertion about FreeBSD and building a router does have to do with complete RFC compliance. As Brooks pointed out, no router ever built actually complied with all the RFCs. In another life I worked for a company using the BSD stack in an RTOS and many non-US customers wanted strict adherence to the RFCs and/or specific statements of non-compliance. This is an arduous job that no one is going to do for free (and that company never did it either). From a practical standpoint building an Internet router from FreeBSD is quite "doable" and has been done. Depending on where that router lives the network (core, edge, enterprise, etc.) you will have to customize the system, but then, that's what engineering is about :-) Later, GeorgeReceived on Wed Dec 29 2004 - 00:56:53 UTC
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