FWIW OpenBSD has L3 MPLS working with a LDP implementation and BGP. No VPLS
yet but I think I saw something about starting to work on pseudowires last
year.


On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 3:15 PM, Simon Westlake <si...@powercode.com> wrote:

> > I don't know who is feature complete, or even what constitutes feature
> > complete these days, given how MPLS is sort of a family of moving
> > targets.  I've looked around and seen a few different Linux projects, in
> > various states of partial completion, some seeming to have happy users
> > but no support and others still under way.  It's typical Linux, where
> > the GPL is supposed to make it easy to share but in practice everyone
> > likes to write their own stuff, getting the easy 80% done but not taking
> > the 80% of the time for the rest.  But RouterOS got something out there,
> > and if it's in the kernel, somebody should have made sources available.
> >    Not that MT has to say where it came from!  (Or did they fit it into
> > userland?)
> >
> My understanding was that the MT implementation was closed source and,
> as Jeff said, either written in house or licensed from some third party.
>
> I don't know that for sure but, as I'm fairly sure there is no open
> source MPLS project out there that implements everything MT has, they
> have either done considerable work to complete all the missing features
> or wrote from scratch.
>
> I agree with you on the 80% statement but there are benchmark projects
> in Linux for most networking functionality (e.g. tc for rate limiting,
> iptables for firewall, quagga for dynamic routing) and I haven't found
> one of those for MPLS yet.
>
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