On Sun, May 05, 2013 at 05:35:18PM +0200, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: > > 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). >
My ideas are also (thought) experiments at this time. > 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.) > OK, thanks for explaining that. > -- Juliusz _______________________________________________ Babel-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/babel-users
