Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2019 12:20:13 -0800 (PST) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd-rwg@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> To: Unix Codenetworks <unix@ssbglimited.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SRv6 in FreeBSD Message-ID: <201911262020.xAQKKDA0004315@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> In-Reply-To: <3c7ffebc-3ca9-eceb-36e7-2c7a0975d746@ssbglimited.co.uk>
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> Hi Rodney, > > I haven't said that is not approved or an RFC exist (there are many and some interesting use cases) , but can you tell me of any in production deployments? I can not, though for the SRH to be in its current state as a "Standards Track" document there must be running code someplace... and that usually implies production deployments as well, or atleast not small scale tests. > > The conservatory still there, if you check with your customer, how many are willing to deploy it? I did not mention any customer(s) at all, I stated I was interested in any use case. > > Open for an offline talk about it as i really like to know if you are seeing other thing.. I do not know that there is much to talk about. > Best regards. > > Santiago > > > > On 2019-11-26 11:33, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > > >> Hi Alex, > >> > >> While I'm not a BSD developer, i really doubt it, considering that the > >> building blocks for SR are not there ( mpls support or just label > >> push/pop/swap). > > He specifically stated SRv6 which is not MPLS based. > > The building blocsk if one was to need this in a BSD are in > > OpenBSD which has an MPLS implementation. > > > >> On the other hand, on SRv6 as you mentioned you rely on IPv6 headers and > >> there is a lot of conservatory about it.... ( unless you are a Cisco fan!) > > :-) The SRH is 5 years and 26 revisions into the process and has > > been "Submitted to IESG for Publication" per: > > https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-6man-segment-routing-header/ > > so it should be possible for someone to do an implementation in FreeBSD > > > >> I'm interesting on the use case, if you don't mind... is it just service > >> chaining you application ? Usually servers are just part of an overlay ( > >> call it VXLAN,? MPLS? or something over something else...) > > I would be interested to here the use cases as well. > > > >> Best regards. > >> > >> Santiago > >> > >> > >> On 2019-11-25 03:43, madhava gaikwad via freebsd-net wrote: > >>> Hello Experts, > >>> I want to know if there is any effort/planning going on to implement Segment Routing (RFC 8402?https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8402). I see Linux supporting it. Wondering if there is something planned on FreeBSD too.My app runs on FreeBSD and I have a use case to share information from one application gateway to another about connection identity. I thought SRv6 header can help me here. > >>> Thank you.Alex. > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list > >>> https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net > >>> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >> _______________________________________________ > >> freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list > >> https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net > >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@freebsd.org
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