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Date:      Tue, 04 Apr 2000 23:47:13 -0400
From:      "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM>
To:        Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
Cc:        Marco Molteni <molter@sofia.csl.sri.com>, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: MPLS (Multiprotocol Label Switching) on FreeBSD? 
Message-ID:  <200004050347.XAA77640@whizzo.transsys.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 04 Apr 2000 22:18:04 EDT." <200004050218.WAA21065@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> 
References:  <20000404190909.A826@sofia.csl.sri.com>  <200004050218.WAA21065@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>

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> <<On Tue, 4 Apr 2000 19:09:09 -0700, Marco Molteni <molter@sofia.csl.sri.com> said:
> 
> > So I wanted to know if someone has worked on this stuff on a FreeBSD
> > box
> 
> Well, yes and no.  The Ipsilon product (which through some twists and
> turns became the Nokia IP4000) was a PC running FreeBSD 2.x.  (I think
> it may have been 2.1 or a very early 2.2 -- it's been too long since I
> looked at it.)  [The people I was working for at the time were
> research partners of some of the technical principals at Ipsilon and
> got access to the source code.  We tried to do something interesting
> with it but could not make it work properly on our COTS hardware.]

And of course Juniper Networks implemented an MPLS signaling stack on
FreeBSD, though the forwarding path is mostly implemented in their,
ah, interesting custom ASIC hardware.  As in the Ipsilon case, you probably
can't get this code to look at, either.

louie




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