From: roopa <roopa@cumulusnetworks•com>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission•com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft•net>,
netdev@vger•kernel.org,
Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber•org>,
santiago@crfreenet•org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/8] Basic MPLS support
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2015 22:58:37 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <54EEC41D.1010800@cumulusnetworks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87pp8xx6ik.fsf@x220.int.ebiederm.org>
On 2/25/15, 9:09 AM, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> While trying to figure out what MPLS is and why MPLS support is not in
> the kernel on a lark I sat down and wrote an MPLS implemenation, so I
> could answer those questions for myself.
>
> From what I can tell the short answer is MPLS is trivial-simple and the
> we don't have an in-kernel implementation because no one has sat down
> and done the work to have a good mergable implementation.
>
> MPLS has it's good sides and it's bad sides but at the end of the day
> MPLS has users, and having an in-kernel implementation should help us
> understand MPLS and focus our conversations dealing with MPLS and
> VRFs.
very much agree.
>
> Having MPLS in our toolkit as the entire world begins playing with
> overlay networks aka ``network virtualization'' to support VM and
> container migration seems appropriate as MPLS is the historical solution
> to this problem.
>
> Constructive criticism about the netlink interface is especially
> appreciated. Hopefully we can have at least one protocol in the kernel
> where the netlink interface doesn't have nasty corner case.
>
> As for linux users. The conversations I had at netdev01 this sounds
> like a case of if I build it people will use the code.
ack again.
Thanks eric!.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-02-26 6:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 88+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-02-25 17:09 [PATCH net-next 0/8] Basic MPLS support Eric W. Biederman
2015-02-25 17:13 ` [PATCH net-next 1/8] mpls: Refactor how the mpls module is built Eric W. Biederman
2015-02-26 2:05 ` Simon Horman
2015-02-26 2:15 ` Eric W. Biederman
2015-02-26 2:28 ` Simon Horman
2015-02-25 17:14 ` [PATCH net-next 2/8] mpls: Basic routing support Eric W. Biederman
2015-02-25 17:15 ` [PATCH net-next 3/8] mpls: Add a sysctl to control the size of the mpls label table Eric W. Biederman
2015-02-25 17:16 ` [PATCH net-next 4/8] mpls: Basic support for adding and removing routes Eric W. Biederman
2015-02-25 17:16 ` [PATCH net-next 5/8] mpls: Functions for reading and wrinting mpls labels over netlink Eric W. Biederman
2015-02-25 17:17 ` [PATCH net-next 6/8] mpls: Netlink commands to add, remove, and dump routes Eric W. Biederman
2015-02-25 17:18 ` [PATCH net-next 8/8] ipmpls: Basic device for injecting packets into an mpls tunnel Eric W. Biederman
2015-03-05 9:17 ` Vivek Venkatraman
2015-03-05 14:00 ` Eric W. Biederman
2015-03-05 16:25 ` Vivek Venkatraman
2015-03-05 19:52 ` Eric W. Biederman
2015-03-06 6:05 ` Vivek Venkatraman
2015-03-07 10:36 ` Robert Shearman
2015-03-07 21:12 ` Eric W. Biederman
2015-02-25 17:19 ` [PATCH net-next 7/8] mpls: Multicast route table change notifications Eric W. Biederman
2015-02-26 7:21 ` roopa
2015-02-26 14:03 ` Eric W. Biederman
2015-02-26 15:12 ` roopa
2015-03-05 1:56 ` Andy Gospodarek
2015-02-25 17:37 ` [PATCH iproute2] mpls: Add basic mpls support to iproute Eric W. Biederman
2015-02-26 6:58 ` roopa [this message]
2015-02-27 21:21 ` [PATCH net-next 0/8] Basic MPLS support David Miller
2015-02-28 0:58 ` Eric W. Biederman
2015-03-02 0:05 ` Shrijeet Mukherjee
2015-03-02 4:03 ` David Miller
2015-03-02 5:10 ` Eric W. Biederman
2015-03-02 5:53 ` David Miller
2015-03-02 5:59 ` [PATCH net-next 0/15] Neighbour table and ax25 cleanups Eric W. Biederman
2015-03-02 5:59 ` [PATCH net-next 01/15] ax25: In ax25_rebuild_header add missing kfree_skb Eric W. Biederman
2015-03-02 6:01 ` [PATCH net-next 02/15] rose: Set the destination address in rose_header Eric W. Biederman
2015-03-02 6:02 ` [PATCH net-next 03/15] rose: Transmit packets in rose_xmit not rose_rebuild_header Eric W. Biederman
2015-03-02 6:03 ` [PATCH net-next 04/15] ax25/kiss: Replace ax_header_ops with ax25_header_ops Eric W. Biederman
2015-03-02 6:03 ` [PATCH net-next 05/15] ax25/6pack: Replace sp_header_ops " Eric W. Biederman
2015-03-02 6:04 ` [PATCH net-next 06/15] ax25: Make ax25_header and ax25_rebuild_header static Eric W. Biederman
2015-03-02 6:05 ` [PATCH net-next 07/15] ax25: Refactor to use private neighbour operations Eric W. Biederman
2015-03-02 6:06 ` [PATCH net-next 08/15] arp: Remove special case to give AX25 it's open arp operations Eric W. Biederman
2015-03-02 6:07 ` [PATCH net-next 09/15] neigh: Move neigh_compat_output into ax25_ip.c Eric W. Biederman
2015-03-02 6:08 ` [PATCH net-next 10/15] ax25: Stop calling/abusing dev_rebuild_header Eric W. Biederman
2015-03-02 6:09 ` [PATCH net-next 11/15] ax25: Stop depending on arp_find Eric W. Biederman
2015-03-02 6:11 ` [PATCH net-next 12/15] net: Kill dev_rebuild_header Eric W. Biederman
2015-03-02 6:12 ` [PATCH net-next 13/15] arp: Kill arp_find Eric W. Biederman
2015-03-02 6:13 ` [PATCH net-next 14/15] neigh: Don't require dst in neigh_hh_init Eric W. Biederman
2015-03-02 6:14 ` [PATCH net-next 15/15] neigh: Don't require a dst in neigh_resolve_output Eric W. Biederman
2015-03-02 21:44 ` [PATCH net-next 0/15] Neighbour table and ax25 cleanups David Miller
2015-03-03 15:41 ` [PATCH net-next] ax25: Stop using magic neighbour cache operations Eric W. Biederman
2015-03-03 19:45 ` David Miller
2015-03-03 20:22 ` Eric W. Biederman
2015-03-03 20:33 ` David Miller
2015-03-03 23:09 ` [PATCH net-next 0/2] Neighbour table prep for MPLS Eric W. Biederman
2015-03-03 23:10 ` [PATCH net-next 1/2] neigh: Factor out ___neigh_lookup_noref Eric W. Biederman
2015-03-04 14:53 ` Andy Gospodarek
2015-03-04 15:58 ` Eric W. Biederman
2015-03-04 16:30 ` Andy Gospodarek
2015-03-03 23:11 ` [PATCH net-next 2/2] neigh: Add helper function neigh_xmit Eric W. Biederman
2015-03-04 1:06 ` [PATCH net-next 0/7] Basic MPLS support take 2 Eric W. Biederman
2015-03-04 1:10 ` [PATCH net-next 1/7] mpls: Refactor how the mpls module is built Eric W. Biederman
2015-03-04 1:10 ` [PATCH net-next 2/7] mpls: Basic routing support Eric W. Biederman
2015-03-05 16:36 ` Vivek Venkatraman
2015-03-05 18:42 ` Eric W. Biederman
2015-03-04 1:11 ` [PATCH net-next 3/7] mpls: Add a sysctl to control the size of the mpls label table Eric W. Biederman
2015-03-05 9:45 ` Vivek Venkatraman
2015-03-05 13:22 ` Eric W. Biederman
2015-03-05 14:38 ` Eric W. Biederman
2015-03-05 16:49 ` Vivek Venkatraman
2015-03-04 1:12 ` [PATCH net-next 4/7] mpls: Basic support for adding and removing routes Eric W. Biederman
2015-03-04 8:13 ` roopa
2015-03-04 20:36 ` Eric W. Biederman
2015-03-05 0:30 ` roopa
2015-03-05 2:50 ` Bill Fink
2015-03-05 11:54 ` Eric W. Biederman
2015-03-05 19:10 ` Bill Fink
2015-03-04 1:13 ` [PATCH net-next 5/7] mpls: Functions for reading and wrinting mpls labels over netlink Eric W. Biederman
2015-03-04 1:13 ` [PATCH net-next 6/7] mpls: Netlink commands to add, remove, and dump routes Eric W. Biederman
2015-03-04 1:14 ` [PATCH net-next 7/7] mpls: Multicast route table change notifications Eric W. Biederman
2015-03-04 5:27 ` [PATCH net-next 0/7] Basic MPLS support take 2 David Miller
2015-03-04 6:13 ` Eric W. Biederman
2015-03-04 5:25 ` [PATCH net-next 0/2] Neighbour table prep for MPLS David Miller
2015-03-04 5:53 ` Eric W. Biederman
2015-03-04 14:56 ` Andy Gospodarek
2015-03-04 21:04 ` David Miller
2015-03-05 12:35 ` Eric W. Biederman
2015-03-05 10:14 ` [PATCH net-next] ax25: Stop using magic neighbour cache operations Steven Whitehouse
2015-03-06 20:44 ` Eric W. Biederman
2015-03-14 0:33 ` Steven Whitehouse
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