MPLS implementatrion!

[Julian Elischer]

Bruce M. Simpson wrote:
> Ermal Luçi 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

> 
> 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 recall.
> 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 depends 
> 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
> 
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