[Olsr-dev] quagga plugin is broken using the latest stable quagga 0.99.21

[Ferry Huberts]

On 19-06-12 14:24, David Lamparter wrote:
> On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 05:46:21PM +0300, Vasilis Tsiligiannis wrote:
>> Στις Τετ 30 Μαΐ 2012 09:30:21 ZioPRoTo έγραψε:
>>>>> do we want to fix this before 0.6.3 release ?
>>>>
>>>> Do you think it is difficult to do?
>>
>> I am working on it ATM. I beleive it will be ready by weekend.
>>
>> Στις Τετ 30 Μαΐ 2012 07:56:29 Henning Rogge έγραψε:
>>> Maybe we should start getting in contact with the Quagga team, maybe
>>> there is a good way to be informed about a protocol change without
>>> reading the whole Quagga list.
>>
>> Quagga project is recently (a few months) showing active development again
>> after a long period of inactivity. The team is accepting more patches from the
>> community and have also set up patchwork for that reason. It's a good time to
>> contact them and I think there are many chances that they will accept patches
>> to support OLSR.
>
> You already have a Quagga maintainer reading olsr-dev :P
>
> I would like to reiterate my suggestion of throwing away olsrd's own
> Quagga protocol implementation and using olsrd-zclient - cf.
> http://git.nowhere.ws/?p=olsrd-zclient.git
> instead.  olsrd-zclient uses libzebra instead of implementing the
> protocol itself and might be easier to maintain in the long run
> therefore.
>
> (That said, the libzebra API is not exactly stable either, and not even
> complete -- olsrd-zclient has some code that needs to be replaced by a
> libzebra call -- but it's still a bit better than implementing the protocol
> directly, in particular because it's far easier to adapt to changes
> after seeing the C function prototype change)
>
> Also, sublab has been running this for years now and it's much more
> stable than olsrd's plugin.
>
> I understand that throwing code away is always a hard thing to do, but I
> think this is a case where it's neccessary :/
>
>


I personally love throwing code away, and am all for this proposal.

And now an (insane?) idea for olsrd v2:
Why not run all of the olsrd functionality within Quagga?
After all, olsr is Yet Another Routing Protocol...




-- 
Ferry Huberts