On Mon, Mar 11, 2024 at 8:22 AM Juliusz Chroboczek <j...@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/ > 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 -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0Tmvv5jJKs Epik Mellon Podcast Dave Täht CSO, LibreQos _______________________________________________ Babel-users mailing list Babel-users@alioth-lists.debian.net https://alioth-lists.debian.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/babel-users