[technique] BIRD et IS-IS/OLSR/Babel

[Laurent GUERBY]

Bonjour,

Pour information, jolis sujets pour etudiants motivés :).

Laurent

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From: Ondrej Zajicek <santiago at crfreenet.org>
To: kveri new <kveri at kveri.com>
Cc: bird-users at network.cz
Subject: Re: IS-IS
Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2012 12:56:43 +0100

On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 09:55:02PM +0100, kveri new wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I would like to implement IS-IS as a part of my master thesis. Are there any apparent problems which would prevent successful implementation, political and/or technical?

Hello

We already started some work on IS-IS [1], although the work was
postponed mainly by work on IPv4 / IPv6 merge [2], which is suggested
prerequisite for IS-IS, as its use of raw ethernet frames and integrated
IPv4/IPv6 topology makes current single-address_family BIRD behavior and
internals inconvenient.

I would prefer to continue in implementating IS-IS. If you want
something similar for your thesis, i would suggest to implement OLSR
(RFC 3626) or Babel (RFC 6126), these are protocols that would be nice
to have in BIRD but i don't plan to implement them myself, and they
could be easily implemented in current BIRD. Or perhaps we could
discuss that off-list and find some solution.

[1] https://git.nic.cz/redmine/projects/bird/repository/revisions/fed1bceb2cf6d424396347921cfc9775c9a8af9b

[2] https://git.nic.cz/redmine/projects/bird/repository?rev=integrated

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