SV: VPLS implementation

[Julian Elischer]

  On 10/13/10 3:36 AM, sthaug at nethelp.no wrote:
>>> So the question is - *why* would you want FreeBSD to support VPLS? And
>>> what exactly do you mean by implementing VPLS on FreeBSD? If you want a
>>> multipoint bridge across several interfaces, this can be done. If you want
>>> something with MPLS support (labels etc) it's a completely different ball
>>> game.
>>>
>> I want to be able to interact with other vendors  using VPLS. I am familiar with 802.1Q, if_bridge and if_gif and its possibilities.
> If you want to interact with other vendors using VPLS, you need, as
> far as I can see, a full MPLS/VPLS implementation.
>
> I know there is some Quagga support for MPLS on Linux, don't know
> about FreeBSD. In any case this is a much more complex scenario than
> simple bridging.
>
> Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug at nethelp.no
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this is pretty much what netgraph was developed for.
you can make a node that implements just the control part of VPLS
and use the netgraph framework to hook it all together.