On 10/30/2011 04:13 PM, Ed Blackmond wrote: > I am thinking of using XORP to turn the switches for the backplane > fabric of our blade server into a top of rack router. > > The blade server uses a Fulcrum switch connected to our 10G backplane > fabric. There are two independent switches in the system for > redundancy and additional capacity. There are two ports on each > switch going to each blade slot, and 4 ports on each switch going to > the front panel. > > Has anybody used XORP with a Fulcrum switch or another chip? What is > the level of effort for the port? What sort of things will I need to > expect? > > Is there a searchable archive of this list somewhere?
http://mailman.icsi.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/xorp-hackers For once, xorp's complex modular design should be a benefit :) You probably only have to hack on the fea, and of that, only the OS specific parts (xorp/fea/data_plane/*). Xorp is designed around PCs, so each interface is generally treated as an ethernet port on a PC. If you have redundant links and such you might want to abstract that out in your OS, and treat a bonded eth0, eth1 as 'bond0' and have xorp deal with only bond0. But, that sort of thing depends a lot on how your hardware actually works. Note that xorp doesn't really process routed packets..it just sets up routing tables and deals with routing protocol packets. Thanks, Ben > Thanks for your help. > > Ed > > _______________________________________________ > Xorp-hackers mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.ICSI.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/xorp-hackers -- Ben Greear <[email protected]> Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com _______________________________________________ Xorp-hackers mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.ICSI.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/xorp-hackers
