Why userspace rather than writing kernel space modules?

[Martin Mares]

Hello!

> You are true. But if you build HW routers based on linux, the kernel crash
> or the bird crash are the same problems.

Not exactly the same -- the userspace crashes are at least automatically
recoverable.

> Today's BGP adds about 100 000 items into routing table. It uses a lot of
> memory and I'm not sure, that the transfer is so efficient.

It should be -- last time I've tested it (one year ago), I was feeding my
kernel with full BGP tables from the default-free zone and there were no
performance problems.

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