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

[Renato W. <ren...@gm...>]

@Milos Vujkovic

I'll package up some debs for you as soon as I can, it may help other
people too.

@Scott Whyte

Your help would be greatly appreciated. You can ask for James to be
integrated into the project documentation on Sourceforge.

Regards,
Renato.


2011/2/9 Milos Vujkovic <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 The wiki is outdated and this mailing list is almost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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