Even more patches

Ondrej Filip feela at network.cz
Mon Aug 25 21:45:53 CEST 2008


Otto Solares wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 09:28:34PM +0200, Ondrej Filip wrote:
>> Otto Solares wrote:
>>> On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 01:12:07PM +0200, Martin Mares wrote:
>>>> BTW, would anybody object to converting the CVS repository to GIT and making
>>>> it available for read-only access to everybody?
>>> That would be nice.
>>>
>>> Does all this recent activity means that development for bird will
>>> continue?
>> Yes, but quite slowly. I have a set of patches for BGP. I have not
>> test them yet. And I am preparing on a testing environment for me to
>> have faster responses. :-)
> 
> Excellent!
> 
>> And of course my very long long term plan is to rewrite RIP and
>> implement OSPFv3.
>>
>> Do you have some feature request?
> 
> MD5 connections for BGP is the only thing missing for me now that is
> supported upstream in the kernel.

Well, I have the code ready. It was written by one student a part of
his thesis. But since it was not tested properly, I am waiting for the
test bed setup. So I hope, I will include it quite soon (means 1 month
or so).

> 
> I'm currently using Bird in Debian Etch with a 2.6.26.3 kernel and it
> works perfectly, the killer app is the multiple kernel tables support,
> altough I just use it for BGP (global + Internet2 huge tables + IPv6).

Don't you have any issues with stability?

			Ondrej

> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -otto




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