[zebra 23217] Re: Query on why Zebra is required !!!

[Anish_Thomas at McAfee.com]

Hi Mike,

Thanks for the response.

Regards
Anish

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael H. Warfield [mailto:mhw at WittsEnd.com] 
Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2010 8:21 PM
To: Thomas, Anish
Cc: mhw at WittsEnd.com; zebra at ml.zebra.org
Subject: Re: [zebra 23215] Query on why Zebra is required !!!

On Thu, 2010-02-18 at 01:19 -0800, Anish_Thomas at McAfee.com wrote: 
> Hi Experts,
> 
> I am beginner, trying to understand the Zebra about its purpose and other details.
> Can someone please clarify my below doubt.

> 1.      Why do we need to have Zebra (routing manager) required ?
> Can't we have individual routing protocols say BGP, OSFP,RIP ect to run and participate in the routing and update the Kernel routing table directly?

You might want to ask this on the Quagga users list.  Quagga is the actively maintained fork of Zebra.  Not much activity here any more.

quagga-users at lists.quagga.net

> Thanks and Regards
> Anish

Mike
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