Re: Removal of PIM support in kernel

2017-12-14 Thread Joachim Nilsson
On Sun, 2017-12-10 at 12:48 -0700, Theo de Raadt wrote: > In our tree, all security or front-facing code must be maintained by > an interested individual/group. If it isn't maintained eventually it > will become a hinderance towards other developments, or error prone > and therefore a risk factor.

Re: Removal of PIM support in kernel

2017-12-14 Thread Joachim Nilsson
On Sun, 2017-12-10 at 19:14 +0100, Martin Pieuchot wrote: > On 10/12/17(Sun) 17:59, Joachim Nilsson wrote: > > [...] > > Now, I've got a few worried questions recently about the removal[3] > > of PIM support in OpenBSD, so I thought I'd ask here. Why have you > > removed it? > [...] > Last year r

Re: Removal of PIM support in kernel

2017-12-12 Thread Dan Shechter
Thanks for the info! Forgot about few such examples, such as sources don't signal so there is a timeout counter for (s,g) that need to be monitored, traffic utilization that might trigger SFP and I guess many more On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 11:33 PM, Claudio Jeker wrote: > On Tue, Dec 12, 201

Re: Removal of PIM support in kernel

2017-12-11 Thread Claudio Jeker
On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 02:32:06PM +1000, David Gwynne wrote: > > > On 12 Dec 2017, at 02:41, Dan Shechter wrote: > > > > I know I am about to be hammered here but... > > > > Without reading the sources, and being a Cisco admin, I am asking this > > question: What PIM got to do with the kernel?

Re: Removal of PIM support in kernel

2017-12-11 Thread David Gwynne
> On 12 Dec 2017, at 02:41, Dan Shechter wrote: > > I know I am about to be hammered here but... > > Without reading the sources, and being a Cisco admin, I am asking this > question: What PIM got to do with the kernel? PIM is just a > signaling/routing protocol, like OSPF/BGP. It should just u

Re: Removal of PIM support in kernel

2017-12-11 Thread Dan Shechter
I know I am about to be hammered here but... Without reading the sources, and being a Cisco admin, I am asking this question: What PIM got to do with the kernel? PIM is just a signaling/routing protocol, like OSPF/BGP. It should just update the mroute tables. Is it about the register unicast? On

Re: Removal of PIM support in kernel

2017-12-10 Thread Theo de Raadt
> I'd welcome anyone interested in PIM to work on it. I'd be great to > have proper kernel support that meets OpenBSD standard and have it > enabled by default. If you're interested in such work, I can help you > getting started ;) Joachim, In our tree, all security or front-facing code must be

Re: Removal of PIM support in kernel

2017-12-10 Thread Matthieu Herrb
On Sun, Dec 10, 2017 at 07:14:43PM +0100, Martin Pieuchot wrote: > On 10/12/17(Sun) 17:59, Joachim Nilsson wrote: > > [...] > > Now, I've got a few worried questions recently about the removal[3] > > of PIM support in OpenBSD, so I thought I'd ask here. Why have you > > removed it? I'd be very h

Re: Removal of PIM support in kernel

2017-12-10 Thread Martin Pieuchot
On 10/12/17(Sun) 17:59, Joachim Nilsson wrote: > [...] > Now, I've got a few worried questions recently about the removal[3] > of PIM support in OpenBSD, so I thought I'd ask here. Why have you > removed it? I'd be very happy if someone could just fill me in, or > provide a pointer to a mailing

Re: Removal of PIM support in kernel

2017-12-10 Thread Patrick Wildt
On Sun, Dec 10, 2017 at 05:59:33PM +0100, Joachim Nilsson wrote: > Hi, > > my name i Joachim and I'm the current upstream maintainer of the > original pimd[1] and mrouted[2] multicast routing daemons. > > First of all, I'd like to give a huge thank you to the OpenBSD team > for all the hard work

Removal of PIM support in kernel

2017-12-10 Thread Joachim Nilsson
Hi, my name i Joachim and I'm the current upstream maintainer of the original pimd[1] and mrouted[2] multicast routing daemons. First of all, I'd like to give a huge thank you to the OpenBSD team for all the hard work you put in with Stanford to relicense mrouted under a BSD license[4]! I don't