[Babel-users] Babel with VPP

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On Monday 11 March 2024 07:26:07 PM (+07:00), Dave Taht wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 11, 2024 at 8:22 AM Juliusz Chroboczek <jch at irif.fr> wrote:
> >
> > Hello Pim,
> >
> > > I finished a few small code changes in VPP to allow transit-net-less transport
> > > of IPv4 and IPv6 in VPP and wrote about it on
> > > https://ipng.ch/s/articles/2024/03/06/vpp-babel-1.html. Considering this
> > > dataplane has some different idioms than Linux, it took a bit of work.
> 
> He also did a nice writeup of an inexpensive 32x100Gbit switch
> recently, running... debian.
> 
> https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/debian-mellanox-100g-switch-pim-van-pelt-3pivf/
> 

Yupp great write up, though curious why he didnt just use sonic-vpp as it already exist



> > First of all, thanks a lot for doing the write up.  In Academia, we are
> > evaluated among others on the number of citations we get, not on the
> > amount of deployment, so every time somebody does a quality write up
> > mentioning usage of Babel, this is helpful.
> >
> > I find it interesting that you find Babel useful on a carrier network.
> > Since I've been working under the impression that IS-IS is absolutely
> > perfect (TM) in carrier networks, we have no experience whatsoever with
> > that case.  For example, while Babel (the protocol) has good support for
> > very high Hello rates (up to 100 Hz), I don't think we've every seriously
> > experimented with sub-second convergence times.  Similarly, we do have
> > some support for using layer-2 link state, but the current implementation
> > is badly sub-optimal.  So please keep us posted with your experiences, and
> > don't hesitate to share your ideas for improvements.
> >
> > Thanks again,
> >
> > -- Juliusz
> >
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