[zebra 22971] Re: [quagga-dev 4345] Re: Want to contribute !!!!!

On 9/7/06, Hugo Santos <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > We have decided to give multicast protocol support for quagga/zebra
> > routing suite which includes.
> >
> > 1.Protocol Independent Multicast (RFC 2362)
> > 2.Border Gateway Multicast Protocol (RFC 3913)
> > 3.Distance Vector Multicast Routing Protocol(RFC 1075)
>
>    Personally i think that both BGMP and DVMRP aren't worth implementing
>  considering their real-world usage. PIM however is. I'm also a PIM
>  implementor and in the past i tried to bring some multicast support to
>  the zebra core (i ran out of cycles meanwhile). I would advise you to
>  add MRIB support to zebra after cleaning up the zebra protocol to allow
>  SAFI to be specified (i had some old patches lingering somewhere, i'm
>  also not sure if something in this direction has been integrated by
>  now). If you guys really want to implement PIM (personally i would
>  rather have quagga interface with an already existing PIM daemon) and
>  want to follow the same design as unicast, then the MFIB handling
>  should go into zebra as well as to support as well future (or old)
>  multicast routing protocols.
>
    Currently we have landed on descison of  implementing BiDir-PIM
mentioned in draft
www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-pim-bidir-08.txt
Being PIM implementer u might have a lot of experience so to implement
Bidir mode what kind of support do we need from zebra, is proper
support available or should we try to implement in XORP ( www.xorp.org
) !!!!
     Also further as mentioned in security considerations in that
draft we have to use IPsec. What does it actually mean by using IPsec
[1] i mean IPsec tools like openswan are available. So we have to
intergrate it in our BiDir-PM mode or what exactly we have to ??

ref :

1) IPsec (IP security) is a standardized framework/mechanism for
securing Internet Protocol (IP) communications by encrypting and/or
authenticating each IP packet in a data stream


>    Hugo
>


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