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

[jamal <ha...@cy...>]

Not sure if i wanna see another xxtable or netfilter hook in there just
so we can do an LSP ping. I have some ideas, so I dont wanna see the
patch incase it influences me; lets discuss later and if it turns out
netfilter is the better way to go then we will take that path.
Heres what i will do: I am going to write a design description since
there is enough interest. 
The discussion belongs to a small list of interested people not netdev.
Anyone willing to create a small mailing list? Make sure you subscribe
DaveM.
This way i can ask for help from people to do coding instead of being
the bottleneck.

cheers,
jamal

I am gonna start working on the doc about _NOW_ ; i should have
something late today or early tommorow.


On Sun, 2003-11-23 at 08:13, Ramon Casellas wrote:
> 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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