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.
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 _______________________________________________ Babel-users mailing list Babel-users@alioth-lists.debian.net https://alioth-lists.debian.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/babel-users
