From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "James R. Leu" Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Porting MPLS-Linux to 2.6 (2.6.0-test9-bk22) comments welcome. Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2003 10:13:19 -0600 Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Message-ID: <20031123161254.GE22638@mindspring.com> References: <1069601291.1055.2663.camel@jzny.localdomain> Reply-To: jleu@mindspring.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Ramon Casellas , Harald Welte , mpls-linux-general@lists.sourceforge.net, "David S. Miller" , netdev@oss.sgi.com Return-path: To: jamal Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1069601291.1055.2663.camel@jzny.localdomain> Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org I can start a 'mpls-linux-devel' mailing list over at SF if you would like. On Sun, Nov 23, 2003 at 10:28:11AM -0500, jamal wrote: > > Not sure if i wanna see another xxtable or netfilter hook in there just > so we can do an LSP ping. I have some ideas, so I dont wanna see the > patch incase it influences me; lets discuss later and if it turns out > netfilter is the better way to go then we will take that path. > Heres what i will do: I am going to write a design description since > there is enough interest. > The discussion belongs to a small list of interested people not netdev. > Anyone willing to create a small mailing list? Make sure you subscribe > DaveM. > This way i can ask for help from people to do coding instead of being > the bottleneck. > > cheers, > jamal > > I am gonna start working on the doc about _NOW_ ; i should have > something late today or early tommorow. > > > On Sun, 2003-11-23 at 08:13, Ramon Casellas wrote: > > On Sat, 22 Nov 2003, Harald Welte wrote: > > > > > now that is interesting. I have a working patch for adding netfilter > > > hooks to the old MPLS stack. If your rewrite doesn't yet have some, > > > I'll gladly add them. > > > > > > I also have a working implementation of the draft-ietf-mpls-lsp-ping-01 > > > based on the netfilter hooks for James Leu's MPLS implementation, btw. > > > > Hi Harald, > > > > Thanks for your anwser. > > > > Some details: > > > > * Jamal and Dave are working on something. As soon as they release the > > code we can get a whole picture of the state of the project. I don't know > > the extent of their rewrite. Maybe jamal and/or Dave can give us an > > overview of their changes. We'll see. > > > > * In the meantime, we are syncing efforts with James. Right know we have a > > patch that applies to test9. It has mostly been a RFC (Rewrite, Format and > > Comment). What I did was: > > - Format the existing code, add comments for each function, start > > documenting, clean up unneeded local variables, conform to C90 > > - Rewrite the procfs implementation to use seq_files (I've tested a > > little and works) > > - Clean up the "tunnel" module. > > it compiles, boots and the entries are created in /proc/net/mpls/* > > > > * Your netfilter and LSP Ping impl. patch would be must welcome. IIRC > > correctly, James was also working on netfilter (I haven't, so I CC'ed him > > here). James, can you give us an overview of that? > > > > * I'm waiting (should come in some days) for James to commit my latest > > changes to the P4 repository. > > > > * CVS and sourceforge releases are out of date. We have two > > possibilities: either you set up a p4 client and wait for James commit, or > > I can provide you with a unified diff for 2.6.0-test9 using my private > > copy. > > > > However, I would be glad to take a look at your patches, even if they > > apply to the old code. > > > > Best regards > > > > > > > > // ------------------------------------------------------------------- > > // Ramon Casellas - GET/ENST/INFRES/RHD/A508 - casellas@infres.enst.fr > > // 37/39 rue Dareau 75014 Paris -- http://perso.enst.fr/~casellas > > > > > > > > -- James R. Leu jleu@mindspring.com