> On 12 Dec 2017, at 02:41, Dan Shechter <dans...@gmail.com> 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 update the mroute > tables.
i have wondered that too. maybe it still works? > > 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/ >> >>
