LDP and Bird

[Pim van Pelt]

Hoi Ondrej and bird-users,

Apologies for my resend. For some reason, my mail provider had tucked away
your response to my mail, which I saw only after I resent it. Thank you for
the pointer - I'm happy to test this out in the lab, and once we're ready
with kernel programming parts of the mpls stack, maybe I can help with the
LDP parts. Of course, I also have to update the linux-cp side of VPP to
consume netlink messages and program the dataplane, so it's more of a
longer term feature arc for me. I am very interested to help making the
combo Bird+MPLS+LDP+VPP work, though.

groet,
Pim

On Mon, Jan 16, 2023 at 9:08 PM Pim van Pelt <pim at ipng.nl> wrote:

> Hoi,
>
> Resending to @network.cz (was @trubka.network.cz earlier). If there's any
> way I can retrieve the MPLS / LDP state for Bird2, I'd appreciate it.
>
> groet,
> Pim
>
> On Fri, Jan 6, 2023 at 11:42 PM Pim van Pelt <pim at ipng.nl> wrote:
>
>> Hoi folks,
>>
>> I work on VPP (a fast userspace based dataplane implementation
>> https://fd.io/), and helped contribute the ability for this dataplane to
>> consume Netlink messages (github.com/pimvanpelt/lcpng)
>> One thing that I've been asked about quite a bit is the ability to
>> program the VPP dataplane with MPLS forwarding. I use Bird2 in my own
>> deployment (https://ipng.ch/s/articles/2021/09/21/vpp-7.html) and was
>> wondering what the current thinking is for Bird to support signalling with
>> LDP. Last I saw was:
>> - https://bird.network.cz/pipermail/bird-users/2017-September/011528.html
>> - https://birdofluck.livejournal.com/8996.html
>> - https://git.nic.cz/redmine/projects/bird/repository/show?rev=mpls
>> - https://bird.network.cz/pipermail/bird-users/2018-September/012760.html
>> - https://bird.network.cz/
>>
>> Maria, do you have pointers on the current state of the union for an LDP
>> implementation for Bird? I'd like to add MPLS support to Linux Control
>> Plane (https://ipng.ch/media/virtualnog/index.html)
>>
>> groet,
>> Pim
>> --
>> Pim van Pelt <pim at ipng.nl>
>> PBVP1-RIPE - http://www.ipng.nl/
>>
>
>
> --
> Pim van Pelt <pim at ipng.nl>
> PBVP1-RIPE - http://www.ipng.nl/
>


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Pim van Pelt <pim at ipng.nl>
PBVP1-RIPE - http://www.ipng.nl/
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