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

[Milos V. <fea...@gm...>]

Guys, thank you so much for your input regarding the lab setup. I will,
however, have to whine a little more.. I have background with Cisco MPLS,
with Linux in general is honestly not my best side. Even though links you
provided me with would be useful to some Linux guru, I still find them
really hard to follow. Is the a possibility of finding a more
newbie-friendly guide on how to install this lab setup?

Thank you,
Milos

On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 2:52 AM, Scott Whyte <sw...@go...> wrote:

> 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 The wiki is outdated and this mailing list is almost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
>
>
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