On reviving pimd and mrouted
I'm unsure if I should take any pride in this, they are old and stale projects that probably should have been forgotten a long time ago. But the original pimd and mrouted multicast routing prodocols have been revived at github.org.
We need them at work and I were a bit tired of digging around the Internet for patches trying to keep them running on our ever evolving new platform. So I sat down a couple of week-ends and read up a bit on pimd and mrouted, collecting patches from the usual places as well as some unexpected places, before creating the projects.
Yes, I am aware of the effort to extend Quagga with a native pimd and I will definitely look into that in due course.
Starting these projects using GIT actually brings closure for me. If anything I can rest assured that my efforts can easily be picked up by someone else should I loose interest.
To those of you having trouble building and using pimd/mrouted, please include build logs and full debug logs in your emails requesting help. Thanks!
Saturday, 30 January 2010 at 13:23 | /hacks | permanent link to this entry