[MLB-WIRELESS] Routing software for redhat

[Chris Samuel]

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On Tuesday 13 May 2003 10:16 am, -|- Hurgh -|- wrote:

> I have gotten my linux install to work with my network cards and stuff, but
> i am not sure what is the best thing to use for routing. I remember on the
> list a while back that people were suggesting some program but i cant
> remember the name of it. I think it was softwall or something like that. I
> had a quick look at the mail archive but i could not find anything..

Sounds like you're getting confused with firewalling. There are firewall 
applications called things like Shorewall and Smoothwall. However, what you 
are after are things that will handle routing protocols like OSPF.

Your choice there is quite limited, there used to be a freely available 
version of GateD that handled OSPF, BGP, etc, but that's now a closed source 
product of the GateD Consortium. However, all hope is not lost, because there 
is now a GPL based routing package called Zebra. There website is at:

	http://www.zebra.org/

It's still in beta (current version 0.93a) and includes an interface that will 
be rather familiar to anyone who's played with a Cisco router. :-)

Note that whilst the website says that the latest version is 0.93a (July 
2002), there is a 0.93b on the FTP site (October 2002). A little strange, but 
the website does look a bit dated in places (for instance, it lists Linux 
support as 2.0 and 2.2 and was written in January 2001).

Works quite nicely, though I've only ever had the chance to test it with 
itself on Linux (Mandrake 9.0), so no idea how nicely it interoperates with 
vendors kit like Cisco. Should be OK if everyone is playing strictly by the 
RFC's (I guess that rules out MS :-) ).

good luck!
Chris
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