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[mpls-linux-devel] Status of MPLS for linux

[Bartek K. <mr...@gn...>]

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Hi!

I have a couple of questions about the status of the project.
Looking at the project homepage I get the impression that it is
stalled. The ldp-portable and mpls-linux tarballs are a couple years
old.

I have tested the kernel MPLS patch from mpls-linux 1.950 and it
needed some modifications to work with a 2.6.18-kernel.
Most of the mods were trivial, but one was a bit above my head (it
seems sysfs usage has changed a bit). Other than that the patches seem
to work...

Are there plans to get this integrated in the linux kernel?
Is it ready for that yet?

I haven't yet tested the LDP and quagga parts.
Am I right in assuming that all routing (LDP / RSVP-TE) is done via
quagga?
Is there any ongoing work to get this integrated into the quagga tree?

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Re: [mpls-linux-devel] Status of MPLS for linux

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

Hello,

I am the only developer of the mpls-linux project.  I have chosen to
spend my development time stabilizing LDP.  This work has been making
significant process, all be it slowly.  The latest developments have not
been published in terms or releases, but can be retrieved via my
development tree.

After I have stabilized LDP, I plan to turn my attention to the RSVP-TE
work which was submitted by a group of developers.  The group of
developers have not been responding to my emails, and they did not publish
a license with their work, so I'm at a bit of a cross roads for what to
do with the code.

Being that that kernel side has been stable, I have not felt the need
to work on it.  I try to track the main line kernel in my development tree,
but I must admit my development tree is still stuck at 2.6.17.4.

I welcome the participation and code contribution of others, if nothing
else but to give feed back that they have tried the software in my developm=
ent
tree and give me a "it works for me" response.  Another role which I would
greatly appreciate would be a release manager.  I have spent a lot of time
building structure to allow for building all of the RPMs that make up
mpls-linux right from the development tree.  I just do not have to time
to do development and make new releases.

On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 08:44:19AM +0200, Bartek Kania wrote:
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> Hi!
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> I have a couple of questions about the status of the project.
> Looking at the project homepage I get the impression that it is
> stalled. The ldp-portable and mpls-linux tarballs are a couple years
> old.
>=20
> I have tested the kernel MPLS patch from mpls-linux 1.950 and it
> needed some modifications to work with a 2.6.18-kernel.
> Most of the mods were trivial, but one was a bit above my head (it
> seems sysfs usage has changed a bit). Other than that the patches seem
> to work...
>=20
> Are there plans to get this integrated in the linux kernel?
> Is it ready for that yet?
>=20
> I haven't yet tested the LDP and quagga parts.
> Am I right in assuming that all routing (LDP / RSVP-TE) is done via
> quagga?
> Is there any ongoing work to get this integrated into the quagga tree?
>=20
> /B
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Re: [mpls-linux-devel] Status of MPLS for linux

[Bartek K. <mr...@gn...>]

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On Wed, 18 Oct 2006, James R. Leu wrote:
> Hello,
> I am the only developer of the mpls-linux project.

That's too bad.
Unfortunately I'm not in a position to help you out there.

> Being that that kernel side has been stable, I have not felt the need
> to work on it.  I try to track the main line kernel in my development tree,
> but I must admit my development tree is still stuck at 2.6.17.4.

The changes to get the release (1.950) version working are minimal.
The only changes of note were that AF_MPLS needs another value, since
the one it uses is now taken, 
and the function subsys_remove_file seems to have been removed from
the kernel.

> I welcome the participation and code contribution of others, if
> nothing else but to give feed back that they have tried the software
> in my development tree and give me a "it works for me" response.
> Another role which I would greatly appreciate would be a release
> manager.  I have spent a lot of time building structure to allow for
> building all of the RPMs that make up mpls-linux right from the
> development tree.  I just do not have to time to do development and
> make new releases.

ItWorksForMe =)
The kernel-patch at least.
In the simplest possible way with static hand-configured labels.
I haven't tested your dev-tree tho, just ver 1.950.

I'm going to be testing quagga with MPLS next.
What setup do you recommend for testing?
Currently I have two vmware-guests connected using two interfaces:
(Tried UML but it didn't behave)
       [internet]
        _____|____
       /  (eth0)  \
   [G1]            [G2]
       \__(eth1)__/

It seems to be a bit simple, and it doesn't have any other hardware.
I'm going to see if I can't borrow a cisco from work and connect that
one too.

/B
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