> Can I ask what is the current situation with babeld and in > Quagga-RE ? At first I thought code would just go from babeld to > Quagga-RE, but clearly it is not a one way street. Because for > example Quagga-RE has authentication and babeld does not.
You must realise that Babel is a research project -- our job is to experiment with new ideas, not to provide a production implementation. Any work on the latter is something that happens in our copious free time (you'll notice that most Babel releases happen on week-ends). Now the current situation is that Matthieu and I prefer working in babeld, while Denis is more comfortable with Quagga. So our work ends up in babeld, his work ends up in Quagga-RE. > When code is commited for babeld how does that end up in Quagga-RE ? > And when people add code to Quagga-RE how does that end up in babeld ? There's unfortunately nobody merging code between the two implementations right now. I really should take a few days to merge Denis' outstanding work into babeld; however, it might be more useful to write a from-scratch implementation from the Internet-Draft, just to make sure that's precise enough. Unfortunately, free days have been in short supply lately. As to merging in the other direction -- it really should be done by somebody who's running Quagga's Babel daily. (We used to do that, but the old edge router has been retired, and the new one is not speaking RIPng, so we're running plain babeld on it.) -- Juliusz _______________________________________________ Babel-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/babel-users
