On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 4:54 PM, Juliusz Chroboczek <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Dave, > > You'll be glad to know that I've just finished the most difficult part > of the year (the December exam session combined with some very intensive > (unpaid) administrative work), so I should have time for fun stuff soon. > >> I am curious as to the current state of these branches. > > 1. babel-rtt > ************ > > Baptiste recently changed the packet format, and I believe that the > code is ready to be merged. The draft is not quite ready, but the > principles are well described in Baptiste's report. Unless something > goes wrong, I'm planning to merge it within a couple weeks.
I had tried to make an eloquent argument for supporting very tiny fractions of a second. > 2. babels > ********* > > This is much more complex. There's a lot of subtle interactions. No kidding! "but it's a helluva start, it could be made into a monster if we all pull together as a teammm...." /me ducks > There are some minor limitations -- routes inserted by another deamon > are not disambiguated properly. I think a clean concept in the kernel was desperately needed, and what needs to happen next are bringing some things like strongswan/openvpn etc into the fold. Or "some other" routing daemon made to co-exist. Thus far I haven't been able to get strongswan to play ball with me using the table lookup method. >I haven't checked the state of the > documentation recently, but the principles are well described in a top > secret paper that Matthieu recently submitted for publication. > > No ETA for merging. Well, having one branch rather than two (RTT in mainline, babels with RTT also) would be nice. I have added the additional features into cero's branch and am working on making it work under procd. I am sore tempted to add direct support for the ubus/uci for configuration. > > -- Juliusz -- Dave Täht Fixing bufferbloat with cerowrt: http://www.teklibre.com/cerowrt/subscribe.html _______________________________________________ Babel-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/babel-users
