On 09/26/2012 03:43 PM, ravi kerur wrote: > Hello, > > I am currently working on developing LDP for Quagga and due to issues (some > technical and non-technical) I am reaching out to XORP as an alternate > solution and > wanted to get some technical insight into contributing to XORP. > > 1. I see RFC 2858 mentioned in bgp/specs directory, I am assuming MP-BGP > support is available in current XORP code base?
I don't know..haven't used more than just the basics for BGP. > > 2. Does XORP take advantage of multi-core SMP processors? I believe Quagga > has a bottleneck architecture here, please correct me if I am wrong. Yes, at least to some degree. But, I'm not sure it would be any faster since there is a lot of overhead in the IPC message passing. > 3. XORP code is developed in C++, is it mandatory to have development in C++ > i.e. If I want to bring in LDP code from Quagga do I need to modify it from C > to C++? No...if it compiles and works (and is GPL), then it will be considered for inclusion. git-format patch series are preferred. > 4. Do you performance numbers published i.e I am more inteested in network > convergence numbers? No..but interested in knowing your results if you do any tests... Thanks, Ben -- 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
