[Babel-users] Babel with VPP

[Pim van Pelt]

Hoi Babel Users,

On 10.03.2024 22:40, Pim van Pelt wrote:
> AS8298 has a ring from Zurich, Frankfurt, Amsterdam, Lille, Paris and 
> Geneva. Our links are carrier ethernet from a telco. Sometimes, when 
> the underlying links fail, the underlay MPLS network will recover and 
> route around the failed telco link, and I'll see latency on my own 
> service go from say 6ms ZRH-FRA to 40ms ZRH-FRA; I thought this would 
> be an excellent use case for Babel.
I wanted to let you know that I have presented on Babel with VPP at a 
few venues in the European NOG scene this Summer and Autumn. I was at 
NONOG, ITNOG, FRNOG, (missed NLNOG due to COVID) and ESNOG. I put out 
the message that Babel works very well with Bird2 and IPv6 next hops for 
IPv4, as we discussed back in March.

I know publications are important for the research angle of the Babel 
project. In case it benefits you -
- ESNOG https://video.ipng.ch/w/i4ibtvEkUmEE39mkCNeDzQ
- ITNOG https://video.ipng.ch/w/bB5MnKTN55wBkS8N3DyQhV
- FRNOG https://video.ipng.ch/w/9A9Zg83PXpunnBvncWYQHL
- NONOG https://video.ipng.ch/w/tYHS4LXoGSpTWuJ3T3tipC
- DENOG (to be published in November)
- Slides: go.ipng.ch/esnog32 go.ipng.ch/nlnog2024 go.ipng.ch/nonog6

I do realize that AS8298 ended up choosing OSPFv3, but I wanted to thank 
you for the support and encouragement you've given as I was preparing 
the changes for VPP to be able to support Babel with IPv4 and IPv6 next hops
So if it ever comes up: VPP works perfectly well with Bird2's babel 
implementation.

Respectfully and with groet,
Pim

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Pim van Pelt
PBVP1-RIPE - https://ipng.ch/