From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 29 01:23:13 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 234F816A419 for ; Mon, 29 Oct 2007 01:23:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: from outC.internet-mail-service.net (outC.internet-mail-service.net [216.240.47.226]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4F6813C491 for ; Mon, 29 Oct 2007 01:23:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: from mx0.idiom.com (HELO idiom.com) (216.240.32.160) by out.internet-mail-service.net (qpsmtpd/0.40) with ESMTP; Sun, 28 Oct 2007 18:23:11 -0700 X-Client-Authorized: MaGic Cook1e X-Client-Authorized: MaGic Cook1e X-Client-Authorized: MaGic Cook1e Received: from julian-mac.elischer.org (home.elischer.org [216.240.48.38]) by idiom.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 220C412681A; Sun, 28 Oct 2007 18:23:11 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4725361C.8030806@elischer.org> Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 18:23:40 -0700 From: Julian Elischer User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Macintosh/20070728) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Bruce M. Simpson" References: <9a542da30710281425v1c95c58rf10e3a94b974fd2d@mail.gmail.com> <472533D9.3010600@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <472533D9.3010600@FreeBSD.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ermal_Lu=E7i?= Subject: Re: MPLS implementatrion! X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 01:23:13 -0000 Bruce M. Simpson wrote: > Ermal Luçi wrote: >> I was wondering why this implementation of MPLS isn't integrated into >> FreeBSD?! >> http://www.info.ucl.ac.be/~iannone/Files/MPLS-Complete.zip >> there's a hell of a lot of these sorts of things out there that no-one has heard of > > At least two reasons spring to mind: > 1. It seems to be targeted at FreeBSD 4.2, which is very old indeed. > 2. No mention of it in GNATS or the mailing list that I can see or recall. > 3. I'd certainly never heard of it until now, and I've been keeping my > eyes peeled for these things. > > Also the work doesn't seem to be complete: I'm really not sure that the > ability to open an MPLS socket is useful in anything other than an > experimental context. > > MPLS is not a protocol which is designed with end-stations in mind -- > it's for routers -- and like any form of traffic engineering, it depends > on a packet filtering engine at the ingress point. pf could offer such a > filtering engine. > > Whilst it's very cool that someone appeared to have done some of the > work... Matthew Luckie came forward a few months back and volunteered > to work on porting Ayame to modern FreeBSDs. > > It is more likely a better fit for FreeBSD and other projects which can > build on it, so I think it is best we hold off for now. > > regards, > BMS > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"