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Quagga 0.99.16 has been released, and is available in the usual place.

This release mostly features bugfixing and cleanup work contributed through quagga-dev mailing list by various authors. Around 30 patches have been merged since the last release. This version is recommended for all users of 0.99 branch of Quagga.

A short summary of commits is shown below, for more details please look into the full changelog. bgpd: use monotonic clock for time of day code cleanup compile warnings cleanup work around warning in assegments_parse() ospfd: fix debug messages that were masked by DISCARD_LSA remove unneeded memset from a very hot function VTY strings cleanup comment out unused function make local functions static enable more OSPF cost command aliases lib: fix memory logging make some structures constant move check_bit into prefix common code fix warning on little endian make match functions take const args remove unused function: route_dump_node() log source of vty connections (bug #566) zebra: change router-id selection algo deal with irdp compile warnings cleanup RIB meta queue code fix more warnings in rtadv fix more compiler warnings remove unused function to fix warning handle RTF_CLONING removal from FreeBSD 8.0 fix argument reference in strncpy() call for BSD fix RIB debug message for IPv6 make declaration const in rtm_flag_dump() fix router advertisements for non-Ethernet link layer addresses ospf6d: remove dead code fix warnings from recent prefix bit commit review LSA sequence number comparison fix LSA locking in ospf6_new_ls_id() other: ripd: fix compiler warnings ripngd: compiler warnings cleanup isisd: fix --enable-isis-topology for 64-bit Linux isisd: fix BPF ioctl() calls, treat "true" and "false" as reserved configure: fix spelling configure: fix HAVE_CLOCK_MONOTONIC spelling

Kevin Houston's excellent blog - Blades Made Simple, has generated a fascinating "sparring match" between Cisco and HP data center gurus. This ongoing "technical duel" is being fueled by the controversial results of The Tolly Group's recent lab test that was commissioned by HP: HP BladeSystem c7000 with ProLiant BL460c G6 Servers vs Cisco UCS 5100 with B200 Servers Network Bandwidth Scalability Comparison Source:...

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Network industry research firm - Infonetics, published this week its 2009 4th Quarter Service Provider Routers and Switches Forecast Report, revealing vendor market share standings for the quarter and 2009. According to Michael Howard - Infonetics co-founder and principal analyst: "The top two vendors in the service provider router space, Cisco and Juniper, together went from owning 69% of the worldwide...

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