From owner-freebsd-net Tue Apr 4 20:47:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from whizzo.transsys.com (whizzo.TransSys.COM [144.202.42.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5103F37B732 for ; Tue, 4 Apr 2000 20:47:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from louie@whizzo.transsys.com) Received: from whizzo.transsys.com (localhost.transsys.com [127.0.0.1]) by whizzo.transsys.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id XAA77640; Tue, 4 Apr 2000 23:47:13 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from louie@whizzo.transsys.com) Message-Id: <200004050347.XAA77640@whizzo.transsys.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Garrett Wollman Cc: Marco Molteni , freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG X-Image-URL: http://www.transsys.com/louie/images/louie-mail.jpg From: "Louis A. Mamakos" Subject: Re: MPLS (Multiprotocol Label Switching) on FreeBSD? References: <20000404190909.A826@sofia.csl.sri.com> <200004050218.WAA21065@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 04 Apr 2000 22:18:04 EDT." <200004050218.WAA21065@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2000 23:47:13 -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > < said: > > > So I wanted to know if someone has worked on this stuff on a FreeBSD > > box > > Well, yes and no. The Ipsilon product (which through some twists and > turns became the Nokia IP4000) was a PC running FreeBSD 2.x. (I think > it may have been 2.1 or a very early 2.2 -- it's been too long since I > looked at it.) [The people I was working for at the time were > research partners of some of the technical principals at Ipsilon and > got access to the source code. We tried to do something interesting > with it but could not make it work properly on our COTS hardware.] And of course Juniper Networks implemented an MPLS signaling stack on FreeBSD, though the forwarding path is mostly implemented in their, ah, interesting custom ASIC hardware. As in the Ipsilon case, you probably can't get this code to look at, either. louie To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message