[mpls-linux-devel] Moving forward

[Scott A. Y. <sy...@im...>]

James,

I'd like to help out with L3 BGP VPNs. In several e-mails on list you mentioned work
that needed to be done on a label manager and the new network namespaces in 2.6 that
might be used instead of vrf.

I had come to the conclusion that the kernel's implementation of namespaces was not
well suited for the creation of multiple L3 VPNs from a single process. I see that
Vivien Chappelier submitted a patchset that allows interfaces and processes to attach
to a namespace. What is the current status of this patchset and will it be used by
the mpls-linux project?

I have the latest p4 code (Quagga 0.99.10) checked out and am happy to report that it compiles and runs
fine in my testbed (simple 2 host 2 LER setup).

So to get L3 BGP VPN support moving forward which subproject should I start with? The label manager?

Thanks,
Scott Yoder
ImageStream Internet Solutions, Inc.
E-mail: sy...@im...