Re: [mpls-linux-general] iptables traffic eng.

[James R. L. <jl...@mi...>]

It sounds to me like you want seom sort of transparent L2 connection,
like ethernet over MPLS.  I have implemented such a beast in for the 2.4
kernel.  It shouldn't be too hard to port it to 2.6.

On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 04:30:02PM +0200, Zordan Arres wrote:
> > Why do you want to use FORWARD entries?  I've only tried using
> > MPLS + iptables in OUTPUT entries.  FORWARD entries haven't gone through
> > IPv4 output processing and are not ready to be hadned off to another
> > layer (ie MPLS).  Do things work as expected if you remove the FORWARD
> > entries?
> 
> i've set up a mpls-routing net ... each edge router
> is a gateway for one of the 192.168*** net ... now i wan't to
> "tunnel" the mpls-net to connect to the net of the
> second ler. this doesn't work without forwarding-entrys, 'cause
> otherwise the arp request isn't labled and cannot be routed
> correctly through the network !
> 
> e.g. i have a computer with the ip 192.168.0.1 connected on ler1
> this one should connect to 192.168.1.1 on ler2. To set up the
> connection the 0.1 send a packet with the arp who-has request to ler1 ...
> without any forwarding entry this router sends the packet unlabled into
> the network and because he doesn't have a direct connection to
> 1.1 he returned no arp-reply. If i entered an iptables-entry as described
> earlier he labled simply each incoming packet from 0.1 and route it through
> the net, so it can be recieved by 1.1 ... 
> 
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