[mpls-linux-general] Re: [ANNOUNCE] Porting MPLS-Linux to 2.6 (2.6.0-test9-bk22) comments welcome.

[Ramon C. <cas...@in...>]

On Sat, 22 Nov 2003, Harald Welte wrote:

> now that is interesting.  I have a working patch for adding netfilter
> hooks to the old MPLS stack.  If your rewrite doesn't yet have some,
> I'll gladly add them.
>
> I also have a working implementation of the draft-ietf-mpls-lsp-ping-01
> based on the netfilter hooks for James Leu's MPLS implementation, btw.

Hi Harald,

Thanks for your anwser.

Some details:

* Jamal and Dave are working on something. As soon as they release the
code we can get a whole picture of the state of the project. I don't know
the extent of their rewrite. Maybe jamal and/or Dave can give us an
overview of their changes. We'll see.

* In the meantime, we are syncing efforts with James. Right know we have a
patch that applies to test9. It has mostly been a RFC (Rewrite, Format and
Comment). What I did was:
       - Format the existing code, add comments for each function, start
         documenting, clean up unneeded local variables, conform to C90
       - Rewrite the procfs implementation to use seq_files (I've tested a
         little and works)
       - Clean up the "tunnel" module.
it compiles, boots and the entries are created in /proc/net/mpls/*

* Your netfilter and LSP Ping impl. patch would be must welcome. IIRC
correctly, James was also working on netfilter (I haven't, so I CC'ed him
here). James, can you give us an overview of that?

* I'm waiting (should come in some days) for James to commit my latest
changes to the P4 repository.

* CVS and sourceforge releases are out of date. We have two
possibilities: either you set up a p4 client and wait for James commit, or
I can provide you with a unified diff for 2.6.0-test9 using my private
copy.

However, I would be glad to take a look at your patches, even if they
apply to the old code.

Best regards



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