Date: Wed, 15 May 2013 17:43:18 +0300 From: Sami Halabi <sodynet1@gmail.com> To: "Alexander V. Chernikov" <melifaro@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: MPLS Message-ID: <CAEW%2BogaKnyB_nKc3E5ER%2Bu5w5MCgnPmi-gCuL9gjWPv9mxjLcA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <5146121B.5080608@FreeBSD.org> References: <CAEW%2Bogb_b6fYLvcEJdhzRnoyjr0ORto9iNyJ-iiNfniBRnPxmA@mail.gmail.com> <CAEW%2BogZTE4Uw-0ROEoSex=VtC%2B0tChupE2RAW5RFOn=OQEuLLw@mail.gmail.com> <CAEW%2BogYbCkCfbFHT0t2v-VmqUkXLGVHgAHPET3X5c2DnsT=Enw@mail.gmail.com> <5146121B.5080608@FreeBSD.org>
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Hi Alex, Any progress on mpls fbsd? Thanks in advance, Sami On Mar 17, 2013 8:57 PM, "Alexander V. Chernikov" <melifaro@freebsd.org> wrote: > On 17.03.2013 13:20, Sami Halabi wrote: > >> any one? :) >> >> >> On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 6:28 PM, Sami Halabi<sodynet1@gmail.com> 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<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 >>> >>> >> >> >> >
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