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

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

Milos,

You can grab the debs from here:
http://www.inf.ufrgs.br/~rwestphal/mpls-linux/debian/lenny/

You should be able to install them with "sudo dpkg -i file.deb".

The kernel package contains only what is necessary for basic MPLS
forwarding. If you want a more complete kernel you must compile it
yourself. Trust me, this is not so hard as you might think!

To run Quagga with MPLS/LDP support there are some additional steps:

# adduser quagga
$ cd /usr/local/etc/
# cp zebra.conf.sample zebra.conf
# cp ospfd.conf.sample ospfd.conf
# cp bgpd.conf.sample bgpd.conf
# cp ldpd.conf.sample ldpd.conf
# chown quagga:quagga /usr/local/etc/
# chown quagga:quagga /var/run/

Please give me a feedback about these packages.

Regards,
Renato.

2011/2/9 Renato Westphal <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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> Renato Westphal
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