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. > > -- > Simon Westlake > Powercode.com > (920) 351-1010 <tel:%28920%29%20351-1010> > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wireless mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wireless mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > -- 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
