Re: [mpls-linux-general] Setting up simple lab - how?

[Scott W. <sw...@go...>]

On 02/07/11 19:45, Renato Westphal wrote:
> @Milos Vujkovic
>
> I also recommend you to start with the MPLS Labs from Adrian Popa. The
> only problem is that the kernel and tools used in those experiments
> are a bit old. If you want you may use that documentation but use the
> lastest MPLS code from Sourceforge (kernel 2.6.32 instead of kernel
> 2.6.15). The commands are the same and the MPLS Labs scripts should
> work.
>
> You can grab the lastest MPLS code with this command:
> git clone git://mpls-linux.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/mpls-linux/mpls-linux
>
> Compile&  install instructions (no rpms sorry ^^):
> http://mpls-linux.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=mpls-linux/mpls-linux;a=blob;f=QUICK.START;h=4707c3a9bf4d710e149b87a55466de318d23fe69;hb=3055a77b0a44345231a7e5df7c5ce193e3b70bfa
>
>
> @Scott Whyte
>
> I have to agree that the mpls-linux project is a disaster in terms of
> organization. The wiki is outdated and this mailing list is almost
> dead.
>
> The problem IMHO is the lack of contributors. When James decided to
> retire from the project I have offered myself to maintain the
> Quagga/MPLS integration and work in the LDP support. Some other people
> were named to maintain the kernel and the documentation. Since then
> the Quagga/MPLS integration got working and the LDP reached an usable
> state, working OK when acting in an ingress LSR. Now I'm working to
> port the OpenBSD LDP to Quagga/Linux.
>
> Since the others maintainers gone quiet, I ported myself the MPLS code
> to the newer versions of the upstream projects: iproute2-2.6.35,
> iptables-1.4.10, linux-2.6.32.27. I also ported the MPLS code to the
> kernel 2.6.35, which is the version that I'm currently using. However
> I'm not a kernel developer, this project needs a real kernel developer
> to keep improving the MPLS stack in the kernel.
>

Renato,

I appreciate all you have done for this project since James started 
looking for people to hand off to.  I was aware of his request for help, 
but I never knew what the results were, so this organizational structure 
is news.

I would very much like to get this project integrated into its various 
upstreams including the kernel, and also get the Quagga LDP code 
integrated over there too.

I'd like to offer help documenting the mpls-linux part, I can easily put 
together a small lab to test interop with cisco and Juniper once we get 
some repositories that build, or even a current set of patches if that's 
the best place to start.

-Scott