[quagga-users 14779] Re: FRR or Quagga

Mark Kamichoff <prox-1QuQYt+lk/[email protected]> Mon, 28 Aug 2017 11:33:28 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.network.quagga.user
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On Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 02:52:24PM +0200, Kurt Jaeger wrote:
> On FreeBSD (and maybe somewhere else) there's this bug in 1.2.1
> of quagga:
> 
> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=214481
> 
> https://bugzilla.quagga.net/show_bug.cgi?id=870
> 
> So maybe use 1.1.1 to stay away from that bug.
> 
> > I understand for existing users of Quagga they might have a choice
> > either to stay with Quagga or move on to FRR.
> 
> At least on FreeBSD, net/frr is a port and therefore, switching
> between quagga and free looks pretty straigtforward.
> 
> I don't know if the problem above is fixed in FRR (which is a fork
> of quagga, as far as I know).

I'm the reporter of bug ID 870.  From my personal experience, FRR does
not suffer from this problem.  It was also discussed on the FRR dev
mailing list earlier this year:

https://lists.frrouting.org/pipermail/dev/2017-March/000498.html

- Mark

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