MPLS

Alexander V. Chernikov melifaro at FreeBSD.org
Sun Mar 17 18:57:35 UTC 2013


On 17.03.2013 13:20, Sami Halabi wrote:
> any one? :)
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> On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 6:28 PM, Sami Halabi<sodynet1 at gmail.com>  wrote:
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>> Hi,
>> Are there ongoing job of mpls in freebsd?
>> I saw thd site http://freebsd.mpls.in for aboug a year now and I don't
>> see much progress.
Yep. It was frozen for a while.
Currently I'm working on it again.

control plane code was heavily redesigned, see 
http://bird.mpls.in/projects/mpls-bird/repository/show?rev=bird_mpls

I have some working MPLS code on 8-S and I hope to create freebsd svn 
branch with base MPLS support in 2-3 weeks.

>> ITOH OpenBSD has a complete implementation of MPLS out of the box, maybe
Their control plane code is mostly useless due to design approach 
(routing daemons talk via kernel).
Their data plane code, well.. Yes, we can use some defines from their 
headers, but that's all :)
>> porting it would be short and more straight forward than porting linux LDP
>> implementation of BIRD.
It is not 'linux' implementation. LDP itself is cross-platform.
The most tricky place here is control plane.
However, making _fast_ MPLS switching is tricky too, since it requires 
chages in our netisr/ethernet handling code.
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>> Thanks in advance,
>> Sami
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