On Sun, May 05, 2013 at 11:42:43PM +0200, Leen Besselink wrote: > 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. >
I case you are wondering, my use case is the datacenter. My use case only uses a very small part of what Babel can do, but I could be running it on a daily basis. > > -- Juliusz > > _______________________________________________ > Babel-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/babel-users _______________________________________________ Babel-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/babel-users
