On 24 Feb 2010, at 17:24, Claudio Jeker wrote: > On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 04:19:33PM -0500, Michael H Lambert wrote: >> If I'm reading the manpages and latest CVS correctly, OpenBGPD does not yet >> support SAFI_MULTICAST for either IPv4 or IPv6, although some of the hooks >> appear to be present. Does anyone have a good feel for how much effort would >> be required to add this functionality (or just where changes need to be made)? >> It looks to be the big sticking point in moving from quagga to OpenBGPD. >> > > Why are you using MBGP? Your the first requesting this. Multicast routing > is totaly different from unicast routing. It will need fairly massive > changes.
I'll agree that multicast FORWARDING is totally different from unicast forwarding. However, I'm talking BGP and not PIM. I think that populating the RIBs is sufficient from a BGP perspective. Michael