From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 15 14:43:20 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B4D3885; Wed, 15 May 2013 14:43:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sodynet1@gmail.com) Received: from mail-pa0-f50.google.com (mail-pa0-f50.google.com [209.85.220.50]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 138832D1; Wed, 15 May 2013 14:43:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-pa0-f50.google.com with SMTP id fb10so1555214pad.23 for ; Wed, 15 May 2013 07:43:19 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:x-received:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id :subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=dVnGo7s+t9wQCNjMESIIcY+CzllXiqNAXenwMeUXqww=; b=Y2cxmdhhHqzOKscQc+lj/2jasYNoBWyUJDn0olwDHCMo4M4ynyRnC8x0IFK5hEymKy tzK5yxwCl/anZpvy+CiL06L6EiJcwqg5gWRb2yMLuCcmwLnsbtS9GyBsqAklGJq/GiEk aFsifNkxMSi0nN28guGztz4vHFGVGrXk2VZUCI780o5sLbd2/RWQAQat14SA5BFSQicE jqg5VfITttxm930FgiScEVcEbjOnpXy2FtrbVyWGH8hewLuwudVhzHjI/rr2CFvwrdyK F30iC/J9u9PAkePu5j067D27VU3oDKzO1pHaPW2oAS3Qq3lwPILZ1WCnaNcLmktxPBmI /I7w== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.66.158.101 with SMTP id wt5mr14777287pab.8.1368628999144; Wed, 15 May 2013 07:43:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.70.67.195 with HTTP; Wed, 15 May 2013 07:43:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.70.67.195 with HTTP; Wed, 15 May 2013 07:43:18 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <5146121B.5080608@FreeBSD.org> References: <5146121B.5080608@FreeBSD.org> Date: Wed, 15 May 2013 17:43:18 +0300 Message-ID: Subject: Re: MPLS From: Sami Halabi To: "Alexander V. Chernikov" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.14 Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 15 May 2013 14:43:20 -0000 Hi Alex, Any progress on mpls fbsd? Thanks in advance, Sami On Mar 17, 2013 8:57 PM, "Alexander V. Chernikov" wrote: > On 17.03.2013 13:20, Sami Halabi wrote: > >> any one? :) >> >> >> On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 6:28 PM, Sami Halabi wrote: >> >> Hi, >>> Are there ongoing job of mpls in freebsd? >>> I saw thd site http://freebsd.mpls.in for aboug a year now and I don't >>> see much progress. >>> >> Yep. It was frozen for a while. > Currently I'm working on it again. > > control plane code was heavily redesigned, see > http://bird.mpls.in/projects/**mpls-bird/repository/show?rev=**bird_mpls > > I have some working MPLS code on 8-S and I hope to create freebsd svn > branch with base MPLS support in 2-3 weeks. > > ITOH OpenBSD has a complete implementation of MPLS out of the box, maybe >>> >> Their control plane code is mostly useless due to design approach > (routing daemons talk via kernel). > Their data plane code, well.. Yes, we can use some defines from their > headers, but that's all :) > >> porting it would be short and more straight forward than porting linux LDP >>> implementation of BIRD. >>> >> It is not 'linux' implementation. LDP itself is cross-platform. > The most tricky place here is control plane. > However, making _fast_ MPLS switching is tricky too, since it requires > chages in our netisr/ethernet handling code. > >> >>> Thanks in advance, >>> Sami >>> >>> >> >> >> >