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

[Leen Besselink]

On Sun, May 05, 2013 at 11:42:43PM +0200, Leen Besselink wrote:
> 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.
> 

I case you are wondering, my use case is the datacenter.

My use case only uses a very small part of what Babel can do, but I could
be running it on a daily basis.

> > -- Juliusz
> 
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