On 1/15/2013 8:29 PM, Jon Auer wrote:
> 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.

Good catch.  You can see MPLS features improving release by release 
through the OpenBSD history.  They treat it as fairly basic.

>
> On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 3:15 PM, Simon Westlake <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>> 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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