FRR | 台北市立動物園資訊網

2020年10月26日—Ateamofdevelopers,ledbyCumulusNetworks,andincludingthosejustnamed,forkedtheQuaggaprojectintoFreeRangeRouting(FRR)in ...

Everyone in the networking industry seems to fall into one of two camps: those that have used server-based routing software and those that have no idea such a thing exists. Now a solution called Free Range Routing (FRR) is taking over cloud and enterprise datacenters around the world and if you are in the latter camp, you’ve probably never heard of it.

FRR traces its roots back to Quagga (and Zebra even before that) that developed into a software routing suite which has been part of the open-source community for nearly 20 years. The Quagga software suite offered BGP, OSPF and RIP support for Linux and Unix servers. This allowed the development of things like BGP route servers or server-based VPN concentrators. Quagga was seen as an amazing tool in the network engineering toolbox by network engineers that understood the value of a software-based router over traditional appliances from the major networking vendors. Quagga made slow and steady progress with a small but dedicat...