Erik Nordmark writes: > Clarifying question: are you only looking for a way to do the MPLS > encapsulation, and then the software that sets this up and manages it is > some application you have? > > Thus if there was a dladm object (similar in spirit to the VLAN support > or IP-in-IP tunneling support), so that you could do > dladm create-mplstun ... > would that be sufficient?
Probably not. In order to be reasonably functional, there needs to be some way to control an inbound label map, LSP mappings, and label actions. (Things can get quite a lot more complex at the IP level for tunnel ingress ... but those sorts of things might not be as necessary in a first pass and are likely also common among multiple tunneling mechanisms.) It definitely doesn't look very much like "regular" VLANs or IP-IP tunnels at the lower levels. I've actually put some thought into this off-and-on (because I wrote an MPLS implementation in a former life). Perhaps this should be a new Open Solaris project under networking. -- James Carlson, KISS Network <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun Microsystems / 1 Network Drive 71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677 _______________________________________________ networking-discuss mailing list [email protected]
