[Xorp-hackers] [Xorp-users] XORP to implement Muti-Topology Routing

[Andy Yuen]

Bruce
Thanks for your response. I am forwarding it to the mailing lists.
Cheers
Andy

Bruce Simpson wrote:
> Andy Yuen wrote:
>> Thanks Bruce.
>> Actually we are going to implement MTR for Cisco routers in our final 
>> implementation. What we want to do on XORP is for validation of a 
>> reactive protocols for traffic engineering. When congestion is 
>> detected at some link, the node will try to reroute some traffic by 
>> sending a message to the source node of a selected traffic flow. The 
>> source node then selects an alternate route and topology to reach 
>> destination. I was wondering for demo purposes, is it possible to use 
>> policy statement to set different routes for different router tags 
>> and use the set statement to set all packets arriving with a specific 
>> router tag?
>> I am not familiar with policy statement yet and just curious to know 
>> if it is possible.
>
> I think you can match on the tag field in the AS-External-LSA 
> according to the manual -- I guess this is what you mean by router 
> tag. Router ID matching isn't supported. I did add this to OLSR as it 
> seemed reasonable to do that, particularly given OLSR is peer-to-peer 
> in the p2p sense; OSPF isn't.
>
> Having said that, TE / MT mods to the OSPF implementation would be 
> great and something worth considering as a feature, it's a case of who 
> gets paid to sit down and do it, if it isn't already in XORP, Inc's 
> product roadmap (I don't believe it is).
>
> PS It would be great if you could Cc: XORP related traffic to the 
> xorp-users or xorp-hackers list. thanks!