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Date:      Thu, 21 Jul 2022 18:16:47 +0200
From:      Lutz Donnerhacke <lutz@donnerhacke.de>
To:        Neel Chauhan <nc@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Freebsd Net <freebsd-net@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: How does FreeBSD expect to compete in a DPDK/VPP world?
Message-ID:  <20220721161647.GA7879@belenus.iks-jena.de>
In-Reply-To: <e936d60dab9699e33ff467c55d42c2d5@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <e936d60dab9699e33ff467c55d42c2d5@FreeBSD.org>

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On Wed, Jul 20, 2022 at 12:14:36PM -0700, Neel Chauhan wrote:
> FreeBSD doesn't have an effective software-based router, lacks MPLS, mpd5 
> lacks native IPv6 without many shell script hacks, etc.

mpd5 does provide IPv6 out of the box. May you contact me in private to
discuss this a bit more in detail?

> Not that I work at an ISP or tech company in a networking role, I don't. 
> Heck, adding even MPLS support has been on my bucket list for a while, but 
> am too lazy to get started. I do want to move to a networking-based role at 
> $DAYJOB, but we'll see about that.

MPLS is outdated (performance-wise) and (functionally) replaced by vxLan, or
do I miss something?



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