[Xorp-users] XORP 1.6 support Click 1.6.0 ?

[Bruce Simpson]

dong yin wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Dose XORP 1.6 support Click v1.6.0? When I run XORP 1.6 to control the 
> remote Click forwarding data plane (click 1.6.0), errors happened.

Short answer: don't know. Looks like some of the element behaviour has 
changed.
I see you are using userland Click, there is probably going to be less 
churn there.

Long answer: Click is a separate project from XORP and the development 
focus hasn't really included Click. It would be great to have someone 
who is able to support and maintain the Click integration on an ongoing 
basis, however I don't think XORP, Inc. has the resources to support the 
Click integration just at the moment. Click itself is positioned more as 
a research tool, if folk started using Click in production deployments 
then I daresay this would change more quickly.

For Click itself I can only really speak for the FreeBSD kernel support, 
which I tried to keep up-to-date (based on Marko Zec's work) but this 
has bit-rotted somewhat. The patch I gave Eddie Kohler a while back has 
helped but I think others have had to pitch in and help out since then.

thanks,
BMS