Build A Network Router On Linux

Idean writes "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 our authors set up Zebra and used it to manage routes dynamically in conjunction with real Cisco hardware."

What's with the disbelief?

[dmayle]

...with real Cisco hardware.

As opposed to the fake Linux stuff everyone's got? Linux is used in millions of shipped units of networking equipment, and there's no reason to expect less of it. Heck, if nothing else, add all of the Net-Link/D-Sys/Linkgear equipment together and you've got solid numbers. And they all support complex networking.

Up until recently, the Cisco PIX series was nothing more then a modified PC running a customized version of BSD (and when they first bought the company that made them, it was barely even a modified PC, with floppy drive and all...).

Software is the hardware of our times, and Linux is damn impressive software...

I thought I'd already done that

[mnmn]

Ive two networks of Solaris and Linux connected together with cisco routers, all working with OSPF. I change the default route once in a while, hook up the second network behind yet another network and watch the route updates spread.

Now the firewall that I use used to be Linux, but has been replaced by Solaris just because I'm studying for its certs. The box runs NAT and squid, letting through certain IPs without mapping them, ip accounting, ipsec VPN and zebra for updates, rp_pppoe software for the dsl connection, and of course the apache, postfix, samba and other such things.

Now should I go about writing a slashdot article on this? I would have, but I know other guys who have other complex settings involving Linux/FreeBSD and dont think much of it.

Quagga

[nsrbrake]

As seen on OpenBSD's deadly.org:
http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?si d=20031013113 502&mode=flat

In which it was mentioned in a comment that Zebra is dead, and has been replaced by:
http://www.quagga.net/about.php