[Xorp-users] QoS and XORP

Mark cvrider at yahoo.com
Wed Nov 8 16:50:43 PST 2006


Why is it then that Quagga can do ACL's yet XORP
cannot? I thought they were almost the same as far as
functionality.

--- Kristian Larsson <kristian at spritelink.se> wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 12:38:34PM -0800, Mark
> wrote:
> > Does this limitation also apply to access lists
> where
> > we are blocking packets on the ingress or egress
> > interfaces? I'm not sure if this counts as packet
> > handling.
> Yupp, that sure is packet handling, packet
> forwarding or whatever you want to call it.
> What XORP on a theoretical plane could do is
> configure netfilter or something like it to do
> filtering/QoS/whatnot for you but I don't XORP
> will ever actually touch any packets that are to
> be routed.
> 
>    Kristian.
> 
> 
> 
> > --- Kristian Larsson <kristian at spritelink.se>
> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 11:29:48AM -0800, Mark
> > > wrote:
> > > > After reading the XORP manual I don't see any
> > > mention
> > > > of any QoS features for it. Does XORP support
> any
> > > form
> > > > of QoS or packet classification on any level?
> Is
> > > this
> > > > something that is in the works?
> > > 
> > > XORP does not handle IP pakcets, and thus can do
> > > no QoS classification. XORP is merely control
> > > plane software, ie functionality for routing
> > > protocols and such.
> > > For QoS you need to look at netfilter or
> something
> > > equivalent.
> > > 
> > > Though, perhaps one day you will be able to
> > > configure how the kernel should handle QoS via
> > > XORP, but that's far from where we are today.
> > > 
> > >   Kristian.
> > > 
> > > -- 
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> > 
> > 
> > 
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