They either developed it in-house or licensed a 3rd party MPLS product. ImageStream worked on and off for years trying to fill in the massive holes of the open source version. Made progress, but never enough to release. I don't think anyone has all 47 or so RFCs covered in a Linux implantation.
Sent from my iPhone On Jan 8, 2013, at 9:06 PM, Mike Hammett <[email protected]> wrote: > Mikrotik had their MPLS implementation before the open source projects were > out (or had features available before them), so it is widely believed that > they developed it themselves. > > > > ----- > Mike Hammett > Intelligent Computing Solutions > http://www.ics-il.com > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Fred Goldstein" <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Tuesday, January 8, 2013 5:46:44 PM > Subject: Re: [WISPA] Ubiquiti ERLite-3 3-port Router > > On 1/8/2013 6:23 PM, Andrew Jones wrote: >> I'm not so sure that MPLS support is being worked on. There is >> certainly no commitment to it from Ubiquiti's forum reps and based on >> the fact that there is no actively-maintained, feature-complete, >> freely-available MPLS implementation for Linux, I'm not holding my >> breath. >> >> Why should I only run MPLS on a Cisco or Juniper device? There are many >> people happily running MPLS on routerOS, including VPLS which is not >> available on Cisco devices until you start to get into the very >> expensive end of town. > > For the moment, if you're doing enterprise managed services (the highest > profit end of the "ISP" business, though a stretch for most WISPs), MPLS > is the only game in town. You do it on a router that has it, or on a > "switch" that has it. Enterprises use their own IP space (usually 10.x) > and thus service providers have to stay at a lower layer. And you can't > really do VoIP decently (full quality) without some kind of QoS-enabled > shim below IP. If you're outside of the scope of a Carrier Ethernet VC, > then you probably are using MPLS. > > There is MPLS for Linux, which presumably is what RouterOS uses, since > they don't make their own sources available and they'd probably have to > if they wrote it.... So I'm surprised that Vyatta hasn't bothered with > it. Cisco is way too expensive. RouterOS boxes on big Intel iron are > more capable, though RouterOS can be a bid dodgey at times (as can a lot > of other systems). > >> >> On 09.01.2013 10:11, Matt Hoppes wrote: >>> You are correct. No MPLS yet. But that is being worked on I'm sure. >>> On the other hand - if you really need MPLS shouldn't you be running >>> a >>> Cisco or a Juniper? >>> >>> On Jan 8, 2013, at 18:06, Andrew Jones <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> The software does not do everything that mikrotik's routerOS does. >>>> Where is the MPLS support, something that many people use on >>>> routerOS? > > -- > Fred R. Goldstein fred "at" interisle.net > Interisle Consulting Group > +1 617 795 2701 > _______________________________________________ > Wireless mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > _______________________________________________ > Wireless mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless _______________________________________________ Wireless mailing list [email protected] http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
