From owner-freebsd-net Wed May 29 2:59:46 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mailtoaster1.pipeline.ch (mailtoaster1.pipeline.ch [62.48.0.70]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7E2C737B401 for ; Wed, 29 May 2002 02:59:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 4931 invoked from network); 29 May 2002 09:59:24 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO pipeline.ch) ([62.48.0.53]) (envelope-sender ) by mailtoaster1.pipeline.ch (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 29 May 2002 09:59:24 -0000 Message-ID: <3CF4A64A.EE220611@pipeline.ch> Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 11:58:34 +0200 From: Andre Oppermann X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Attila Nagy Cc: Luigi Iannone , freebsd-net@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: MPLS References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Attila Nagy wrote: > > Hello, > > > I developped a basic implementation of MPLS over Ethernet in the FreeBSD > > Environment! If someone is interested in my code just e.mail me! > Great! Although I do not have the devices to test this, it is very > nice to hear that. I think the patches should go to hackers@freebsd.org, > to give them a chance to get them into the base. > > Yesterday I was at Ericsson on a Juniper demo (http://www.juniper.net/). > JUNOS is based on FreeBSD and knows everything, which has to be known by a > core router (for example MPLS). It would be very nice to see the same > functionality on a simple PC :) It is true that JUNOS is more or less FreeBSD. But it's only the control plane. All the switching and stack processing happens on the line cards which have their own CPUs and OS. -- Andre To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message