Re: [mpls-linux-devel] Moving forward

[James J. <ja...@fr...>]

I would not know. I am not an active developer on this project, sorry.
Anyone else on the list want to pipe up?

On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 8:11 AM, Scott A. Yoder <sy...@im...> wrote:
> 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...
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