Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 18:23:40 -0700 From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: "Bruce M. Simpson" <bms@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ermal_Lu=E7i?= <ermal.luci@gmail.com> Subject: Re: MPLS implementatrion! Message-ID: <4725361C.8030806@elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <472533D9.3010600@FreeBSD.org> References: <9a542da30710281425v1c95c58rf10e3a94b974fd2d@mail.gmail.com> <472533D9.3010600@FreeBSD.org>
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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"
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