On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 7:24 PM, Jafar Al-Gharaibeh <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Everyone, > > I have been looking into the ability to support multiple cost metrics > per link for ospf, which is something that I brought up in our first Quagga > monthly meeting. The "official" term for that is Multi-Topology (MT) > Routing in OSPF which is described in RFC 4915 ( > https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4915). > > After some digging I found that this was actually brought up 6 years ago > on this list: > https://lists.quagga.net/pipermail/quagga-dev/2009-July/006789.html > > And It seems like there was a collective effort to get this up and running > with progress on github here: > https://github.com/tomhenderson/quagga-mtr/ > > I see names like Paul, Vincent, Joakim among others who had contributed to > this effort. I haven't checked to see how far did this go but it seems > nobody has touched it in 5 years. Multi routing table support was not very > common at the time in Linux kernels, and the same can be said about VRF > which are things that could have hindered the move at the time but I'm not > sure. > > Can anyone tell me please about that project or any similar efforts? > Somewhat related...didn't cisco eventually abandon MTR? I remember them dumping huge resources into this but if my memory is correct the whole project was cancelled (from googling it looks like it did ship though) Daniel
_______________________________________________ Quagga-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.quagga.net/mailman/listinfo/quagga-dev
