At 01:35 AM 6/8/98 +0000, brad wrote:
So far, I've had a large number of questions about a statement I made here in NANOG. The statement was made in passing, while I was looking for sources for something that would run BGP4 and allow us to transition from static single-homing to dynamic multi-homing. Rather than answer, yet many more inquiries, I am posting the answer here in NANOG, to fore-stall further such inquiries.
MHSC prefers open-source whenever we can get it and prefer to run reference-standard code. This is why we run sendmail v8.8.8, qpopper, BIND, and others.
I see no need for open source when it is quite obvious you do not understand anything that you are compiling.
Before inserting your foot further into your insulting mouth, visit my personal web-site. We also have a couple of PhD CS's around here somewhere, oh yeah, they're working on paid-for commercial projects. How much money have you stolen from the NSF to-date?
We are a Caldera VAR and our servers are built up from Caldera Open Linux Standard edition, with about 30 add-ons <groan>. We *do* have BRU, Netscape, and other commercial binaries that have been bought, but not before attempting to find acceptable reference-standards. We have also provided DewPoint/Caldera with input towards an Enterprise Server distribution for Linux.
Linux.. the choice of a gnutered generation.
Bigotry and snobry, a sure sign of insecurity and penus envy. What's the matter, didn't get laid last week-end?
Anyway, we've applied for an ASN and ran into the BGP4 requirement. Ergo, we were looking for the reference-standard BGP4 implementation, which is GateD. We (I) was *very* surprised at the attitude exhibited at <http://www.gated.org>. Very much anti-commercial. But, that does not matter to me as I have $other$ things to worry about (Paying the rent around here is one of them <sigh>). Ergo, having run *that* trail to ground, I posted a query here in NANOG, that Dean Anderson, Shane Wright, Craig Labovit, and others have answered.
Well, you can probably write your own BGP implementation in about a month. This would cost you considerably less than $110k assuming a conservative valuation of your time ($4.25-$5.00/hr).
Buddy boy, you can't afford me <sheesh>!
I now have gated v3.5.9, for Linux, and am building it now. I'll probably run into trouble, as I do with most things that don't have a configure script, or have an otherwise non-standard build process (Why is it that *only* the academic originated stuff is such a PITA? <sigh>).
LINUX#make sh: make: command not found LINUX#Ihatethesefuckingcomputersasdf3252r23t2g sh: Ihatethesefuckingcomputersasdf3252r23t2g: command not found LINUX#goddamn these academic types etc..
Jeez, you can't even spell "damned" right. Also, in that context God is capitalized. Now, if Bradly wants to really play with something easy, install Apache-SSL.mod-perl on a Linux box. Or anything else with a configure script. ___________________________________________________ Roeland M.J. Meyer, ISOC (InterNIC RM993) e-mail: <mailto:rmeyer@mhsc.com>rmeyer@mhsc.com Internet phone: hawk.mhsc.com Personal web pages: <http://www.mhsc.com/~rmeyer>www.mhsc.com/~rmeyer Company web-site: <http://www.mhsc.com/>www.mhsc.com/ ___________________________________________ SecureMail from MHSC.NET is coming soon!