From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 29 16:51:02 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 3B80F16A46B for ; Mon, 29 Oct 2007 16:51:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dudu@dudu.ro) Received: from mu-out-0910.google.com (mu-out-0910.google.com [209.85.134.184]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0A3813C48D for ; Mon, 29 Oct 2007 16:51:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dudu@dudu.ro) Received: by mu-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id w9so2046196mue for ; Mon, 29 Oct 2007 09:50:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.82.172.10 with SMTP id u10mr10290339bue.1193641424733; Mon, 29 Oct 2007 00:03:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.82.162.16 with HTTP; Mon, 29 Oct 2007 00:03:44 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 09:03:44 +0200 From: "Vlad GALU" To: "Julian Elischer" In-Reply-To: <4725361C.8030806@elischer.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <9a542da30710281425v1c95c58rf10e3a94b974fd2d@mail.gmail.com> <472533D9.3010600@FreeBSD.org> <4725361C.8030806@elischer.org> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org, "Bruce M. Simpson" , =?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 16:51:02 -0000 On 10/29/07, Julian Elischer wrote: > Bruce M. Simpson wrote: > > Ermal Lu=E7i 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 A friend of mine wrote a LDP implementation for NetBSD: http://kefren.netbsd.ro/. Feel free to glance at it :) > > > > > 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 reca= ll. > > 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 depend= s > > 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" > > _______________________________________________ > 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" > --=20 Mahnahmahnah!