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 Sun, Dec 10, 2017 at 8:59 AM, Joachim Nilsson <troglo...@gmail.com> 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 you put in with Stanford to relicense mrouted > under a BSD license[4]! I don't think you know this, but your work > also freed pimd[1], which in large parts is based on mrouted. > > 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 list discussion (I couldn't find any). > At the very least I'd like to have up to date information to provide > my users. > > There are currently three major open source PIM implementations for > UNIX that I know of: pimd[1] which today supports both PIM-SM and > PIM-SSM, Xorp pimd[5] (PIM-SM only), and the Quagga PIM-SSM only > pimd[6]. All of them support(ed) OpenBSD, and at least I tested > regularly on OpenBSD. I think the community could greatly benefit > from keeping the PIM kernel support, however, I do understand that > you primarily only support your in-tree applications, like mrouted. > > Best regards > /Joachim Nilsson > > [1]: https://github.com/troglobit/pimd/ > [2]: https://github.com/troglobit/mrouted/ > [3]: https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=148240469327159 > [4]: http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.sbin/mrouted/LICE > NSE > [5]: https://github.com/greearb/xorp.ct/ > [6]: https://github.com/FRRouting/frr/ > >
