Thread: [mpls-linux-general] kernel patch for 2.4.23-4

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Hi,

Ive got to test MPLS on a recent kernel is there a patch available for
the lastest kernel ?

Thanks in advance,
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Eric Leblond <ele...@in...>
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On Mon, 5 Jan 2004, Eric Leblond wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Ive got to test MPLS on a recent kernel is there a patch available for
> the lastest kernel ?
>

Hi,

it should not be difficult to maually apply the mpls patch to the latest
kernel. The changes to the files outside net/mpls are not very large.

Bear in mind though that most work is being done for the 2.6 series, and
we should have some first version for this kernel in the folloing weeks.

Best regqrds,

R;

Le lun 05/01/2004 =E0 20:46, Ramon Casellas a =E9crit :

> it should not be difficult to maually apply the mpls patch to the latest
> kernel. The changes to the files outside net/mpls are not very large.

I've already done this but I had some maybe non related problem
elsewhere with the kernel.

>=20
> Bear in mind though that most work is being done for the 2.6 series, and
> we should have some first version for this kernel in the folloing weeks.

ok, fine, a good news for future.

I've another question :
Is the 2.4 version usable in production environment (basically backbone
router) ?

Br,
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Eric Leblond <ele...@in...>
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On Tue, 6 Jan 2004, Eric Leblond wrote:

>
> I've another question :
> Is the 2.4 version usable in production environment (basically backbone
> router) ?

I will let James answer this question in detail. I don't relly know if it
is production ready or not. I have been using it for some time and it
looks quite solid, but there are some issues: a) when using RSVPD it is
much less stable. I have ot investigated if it is a kernel issue or a
daemon issues and b) during our work to port to 2.6 we have identified
some leaks in error paths that have not been backported to 2.4 (references
that are not released after a mem alloc fails etc).

Maybe someone with more experience may give you a better answer.

Regards,
R.

Le mar 06/01/2004 =E0 12:51, Ramon Casellas a =E9crit :
> On Tue, 6 Jan 2004, Eric Leblond wrote:
>=20
> >
> > I've another question :
> > Is the 2.4 version usable in production environment (basically backbone
> > router) ?
> I will let James answer this question in detail.

ok !
In my patch quest, I try to patch zebra 0.94 but it failed. I try to
manually have thing working but things like ospf were particulary badly
patched. I've got almost the same problem with iproute2.
Could someone point me to a documentation where I can find how to
compile this two elements ?

Thanks in advance,
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Eric Leblond <ele...@in...>
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