From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 13 17:06:48 2010 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 EAFA01065673 for ; Wed, 13 Oct 2010 17:06:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from julian@freebsd.org) Received: from out-0.mx.aerioconnect.net (out-0-7.mx.aerioconnect.net [216.240.47.67]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB6718FC20 for ; Wed, 13 Oct 2010 17:06:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from idiom.com (postfix@mx0.idiom.com [216.240.32.160]) by out-0.mx.aerioconnect.net (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o9DH6kRv027813; Wed, 13 Oct 2010 10:06:46 -0700 X-Client-Authorized: MaGic Cook1e X-Client-Authorized: MaGic Cook1e X-Client-Authorized: MaGic Cook1e Received: from julian-mac.elischer.org (h-67-100-89-137.snfccasy.static.covad.net [67.100.89.137]) by idiom.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 191C92D6017; Wed, 13 Oct 2010 10:06:45 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4CB5E753.5080709@freebsd.org> Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 10:07:31 -0700 From: Julian Elischer User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10.4; en-US; rv:1.9.2.9) Gecko/20100915 Thunderbird/3.1.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: sthaug@nethelp.no References: <4CB57781.1030402@gmx.com> <20101013.113223.74662610.sthaug@nethelp.no> <20101013.123602.41726980.sthaug@nethelp.no> In-Reply-To: <20101013.123602.41726980.sthaug@nethelp.no> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.67 on 216.240.47.51 Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org, jon.otterholm@ide.resurscentrum.se Subject: Re: SV: VPLS implementation 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: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 17:06:49 -0000 On 10/13/10 3:36 AM, sthaug@nethelp.no wrote: >>> So the question is - *why* would you want FreeBSD to support VPLS? And >>> what exactly do you mean by implementing VPLS on FreeBSD? If you want a >>> multipoint bridge across several interfaces, this can be done. If you want >>> something with MPLS support (labels etc) it's a completely different ball >>> game. >>> >> I want to be able to interact with other vendors using VPLS. I am familiar with 802.1Q, if_bridge and if_gif and its possibilities. > If you want to interact with other vendors using VPLS, you need, as > far as I can see, a full MPLS/VPLS implementation. > > I know there is some Quagga support for MPLS on Linux, don't know > about FreeBSD. In any case this is a much more complex scenario than > simple bridging. > > Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no > _______________________________________________ > 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" > this is pretty much what netgraph was developed for. you can make a node that implements just the control part of VPLS and use the netgraph framework to hook it all together.