Re: [Devil-linux-develop] [PATCH] BIRD routing daemon

[Arnaud Gomes-do-V. <Arn...@ir...>]

Hello Heiko,

"Heiko Zuerker" <he...@zu...> writes:

> Before I add it, just a couple of questions:
>
> How's bird different from quagga?

Two main differences:

- BIRD has a more "system", less "network" approach to its
  configuration: to reconfigure it, just edit bird.conf and send it
  SIGHUP (Quagga has a more Cisco-like "change the live config through
  the CLI then save it" approach).
- More important, from my limited experience, BIRD tends to be less
  buggy than Quagga, particularly when using OSPFv3. Quagga's ospf6d 
  has been described by its authors as "alpha/beta quality" and this is
  quite close to the truth.

> What's the benefit with having both in DL?

Choice. :-)

>From our point of view, we are currently switching from Quagga to BIRD
so it would be easier to have it in DL. If you don't want to ship both I
will have to maintain a separate patch; I can perfectly understand
this. I can't promise I will track upstream BIRD releases closely as we
don't tend to upgrade our DL boxes very often.

-- 
Arnaud