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Date:      Thu, 19 Jul 2001 11:23:45 +0200
From:      Christophe Prévotaux <c.prevotaux@hexanet.fr>
To:        Thierry Herbelot <thierry@herbelot.com>
Cc:        net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: MPLS
Message-ID:  <20010719112345.2bf5369e.c.prevotaux@hexanet.fr>
In-Reply-To: <3B55E08B.72202BA7@herbelot.com>
References:  <20010718123525.7df2028c.c.prevotaux@hexanet.fr> <3B55E08B.72202BA7@herbelot.com>

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On Wed, 18 Jul 2001 21:16:27 +0200
Thierry Herbelot <thierry@herbelot.com> wrote:

> Christophe Privotaux wrote:
> > 
> > Will MPLS and MPLS-TE (and MPLS VPL L2 and L3) be implemented
> > under FreeBSD ?
> 
> have-you had a look at the archives ? ISTR a post where someone
> announced work with MPLS ....

No I haven't but if you know who develops it and where the information
is located, maybe you could point me in the right direction ? :

> 
> > 
> > I know that Juniper has implemented them and whole bunch of other
> > neat thing over FreeBSD and that the latest JUNOS is a somewhat modified
> > FreeBSD 4.x
> 
> I would be very surprised (but very happy) if Juniper would make its
> routing software public : this is the core of their business and where
> they have a competitive advantage when compared to other startups (this
> includes MPLS, which may be tied to their routing ASIC, and BGP-4)

Well I know you can download junos 4.4 and run it over a FreeBSD machine
and use MPLS without any trouble whatsoever. The fact that the MPLS is tied
to their ASICs is a fact , but I know it can also run over a standard FreeBSD
without any ASICS

> 
> 	TfH
> > 
> > Is anyone (or maybe Juniper ? :)) working on implementing this under FreeBSD ?
> > 
> > Also when will AltQ be part of the FreeBSD system ?
> > 
> 
> -- 
> Thierry Herbelot
> 


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