[Babel-users] Babeld and Quagga-RE [was: atomic updates...]

[Leen Besselink]

On Sun, May 05, 2013 at 05:35:18PM +0200, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote:
> > Can I ask what is the current situation with babeld and in
> > Quagga-RE ? At first I thought code would just go from babeld to
> > Quagga-RE, but clearly it is not a one way street. Because for
> > example Quagga-RE has authentication and babeld does not.
> 
> You must realise that Babel is a research project -- our job is to
> experiment with new ideas, not to provide a production implementation.
> Any work on the latter is something that happens in our copious free
> time (you'll notice that most Babel releases happen on week-ends).
> 

My ideas are also (thought) experiments at this time.

> Now the current situation is that Matthieu and I prefer working in
> babeld, while Denis is more comfortable with Quagga.  So our work ends
> up in babeld, his work ends up in Quagga-RE.
> 
> > When code is commited for babeld how does that end up in Quagga-RE ?
> > And when people add code to Quagga-RE how does that end up in babeld ?
> 
> There's unfortunately nobody merging code between the two
> implementations right now.  I really should take a few days to merge
> Denis' outstanding work into babeld; however, it might be more useful
> to write a from-scratch implementation from the Internet-Draft, just
> to make sure that's precise enough.  Unfortunately, free days have
> been in short supply lately.
> 
> As to merging in the other direction -- it really should be done by
> somebody who's running Quagga's Babel daily.  (We used to do that, but
> the old edge router has been retired, and the new one is not speaking
> RIPng, so we're running plain babeld on it.)
> 

OK, thanks for explaining that.

> -- Juliusz