Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2019 20:43:01 +0000 From: Unix Codenetworks <unix@ssbglimited.co.uk> To: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd-rwg@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SRv6 in FreeBSD Message-ID: <4eedc700-0bfd-0bb7-fa74-2ad6c16cd359@ssbglimited.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <201911262020.xAQKKDA0004315@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> References: <201911262020.xAQKKDA0004315@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
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Hey, no prob.. sure lets wait to hear back on the use case that could be interesting :) On 2019-11-26 20:20, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: >> Hi Rodney, >> >> I haven't said that is not approved or an RFC exist (there are many and some interesting use cases) , but can you tell me of any in production deployments? > I can not, though for the SRH to be in its current state as a "Standards Track" document > there must be running code someplace... and that usually implies production deployments > as well, or atleast not small scale tests. > >> The conservatory still there, if you check with your customer, how many are willing to deploy it? > I did not mention any customer(s) at all, I stated I was interested in any use case. > >> Open for an offline talk about it as i really like to know if you are seeing other thing.. > I do not know that there is much to talk about. > >> Best regards. >> >> Santiago >> >> >> >> On 2019-11-26 11:33, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: >> >>>> Hi Alex, >>>> >>>> While I'm not a BSD developer, i really doubt it, considering that the >>>> building blocks for SR are not there ( mpls support or just label >>>> push/pop/swap). >>> He specifically stated SRv6 which is not MPLS based. >>> The building blocsk if one was to need this in a BSD are in >>> OpenBSD which has an MPLS implementation. >>> >>>> On the other hand, on SRv6 as you mentioned you rely on IPv6 headers and >>>> there is a lot of conservatory about it.... ( unless you are a Cisco fan!) >>> :-) The SRH is 5 years and 26 revisions into the process and has >>> been "Submitted to IESG for Publication" per: >>> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-6man-segment-routing-header/ >>> so it should be possible for someone to do an implementation in FreeBSD >>> >>>> I'm interesting on the use case, if you don't mind... is it just service >>>> chaining you application ? Usually servers are just part of an overlay ( >>>> call it VXLAN,? MPLS? or something over something else...) >>> I would be interested to here the use cases as well. >>> >>>> Best regards. >>>> >>>> Santiago >>>> >>>> >>>> On 2019-11-25 03:43, madhava gaikwad via freebsd-net wrote: >>>>> Hello Experts, >>>>> I want to know if there is any effort/planning going on to implement Segment Routing (RFC 8402?https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8402). I see Linux supporting it. Wondering if there is something planned on FreeBSD too.My app runs on FreeBSD and I have a use case to share information from one application gateway to another about connection identity. I thought SRv6 header can help me here. >>>>> Thank you.Alex. >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list >>>>> https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net >>>>> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list >>>> https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net >>>> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >>>> >>>> >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list >> https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >>
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