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On 17.03.2013 19:57, Alexander V. Chernikov wrote:
> On 17.03.2013 13:20, Sami Halabi wrote:
>>> ITOH OpenBSD has a complete implementation of MPLS out of the box, maybe
> Their control plane code is mostly useless due to design approach (routing daemons talk via kernel).

What's your approach?

> Their data plane code, well.. Yes, we can use some defines from their headers, but that's all :)
>>> porting it would be short and more straight forward than porting linux LDP
>>> implementation of BIRD.
 >
> It is not 'linux' implementation. LDP itself is cross-platform.
> The most tricky place here is control plane.
> However, making _fast_ MPLS switching is tricky too, since it requires chages in our netisr/ethernet
> handling code.

Can you explain what changes you think are necessary and why?

-- 
Andre