Re: [mpls-linux-devel] MPLS Linux

[James R. L. <jl...@mi...>]

Hello Clifford,

See my response in-line.

On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 10:27:10AM -0500, Clifford George wrote:
> Dear MPLS Linux development community.
> 
> We are considering adding MPLS into our Linux based product and
> contributing to your project.
> 
> We are currently using quagga, so I assume that adding in LDP will not
> be a problem. A problem could be that our kernel is 2.4.23, and
> management are saying, don't' change it!

There is currently an LDP implementation, it could use some work though
(handling multipath comes to mind).  In addition there is an RSVP-TE
implementation I inherited, but only compiles at this point.

> Does anyone have any experience of integrating MPLS forwarding into a
> 2.4.23 kernel? Is it possible to do it or impossible without a lot of
> effort?

The original development was done on a 2.4 kernel so I could dig back
into the archive and figure out what it would take to convert back to
2.4.

My gut feeling is that not all that much would need to change, probably
the NETLINK interface and the path from IPv4 to MPLS would need to
be reworked.

> Thanking you in advance for your thoughts on this matter?
> 
>  
> 
> Regards
> 
> Clifford George
> 
> Software Development Engineer
> 
> Paradise Datacom
> 
>  
> 
> P.S. I tried and failed to download anything via Sourceforge, is the
> only way now via 'p4'?

You can pull source RPMs from http://mpls-linux.sourceforge.net/fedora/

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