It shipped and then got shelved because it was available on one platform
and no-one was using it.

But yes I spent a large amount of time getting it to work under EIGRP :)

donald

On Sun, Dec 20, 2015 at 8:55 AM, Daniel Walton <[email protected]>
wrote:

>
>
> On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 7:24 PM, Jafar Al-Gharaibeh <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Everyone,
>>
>>     I have been looking into the ability to support multiple cost metrics
>> per link for ospf, which is something that I brought up in our first Quagga
>> monthly meeting. The "official" term for that is Multi-Topology (MT)
>> Routing in OSPF which is described in RFC  4915 (
>> https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4915).
>>
>> After some digging I found that this was actually brought up 6 years ago
>> on this list:
>> https://lists.quagga.net/pipermail/quagga-dev/2009-July/006789.html
>>
>> And It seems like there was a collective effort to get this up and
>> running with progress on github here:
>> https://github.com/tomhenderson/quagga-mtr/
>>
>> I see names like Paul, Vincent, Joakim among others who had contributed
>> to this effort. I haven't checked to see how far did this go but it seems
>> nobody has touched it in 5 years. Multi routing table support was not very
>> common at the time in Linux kernels, and the same can be said about VRF
>> which are things that could have hindered the move at the time but I'm not
>> sure.
>>
>> Can anyone tell me please about that project or any similar efforts?
>>
>
> Somewhat related...didn't cisco eventually abandon MTR?  I remember them
> dumping huge resources into this but if my memory is correct the whole
> project was cancelled (from googling it looks like it did ship though)
>
> Daniel
>
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