Vaibhav Khatavkar

Introduction to routing software ?

If one wants to test a new routing protocol that he has implemented then its practically impossible / not feasible to test his implementation on hardware router. Here routing softwares come into picture.

Routing softwares are nothing but the routing protocol daemons running on the system.So if one want to implement a new routing protocol ,he just has to write a daemon of that protocol and integrate it with the routing software. Many routing software suites exists in FOSS. e.g. GNU Zebra, Quagga, XORP etc.. These Routing software suites need nothing but the Linux system running

It is quite feasible to test routing protocols on software suites available on your system rather than to buy/hire a hardware router.

-- AndrewLynn - 02 Nov 2007