[Xorp-users] (no subject) - ISIS

[Ben Greear]

On 07/08/2010 11:28 PM, Kristian Larsson wrote:
> Sorry for top posting, I'm using my phone..
>
> If anyone wants to take on this task I would just like to recommend going with the latter approach, ie take the OSPF process and hack away rather than try to integrate isisd from quagga as I think the resulting code, given my memory of it, would be rather fugly ;-)
>
> Just my .02$
>
> Btw, how does the OSPF process do sockets today? Given that it idea neither UDP nor TCP I guess it uses some form of raw sockets, right? Does those sockets allow the manipulation of L2 data? How should one go about sending the LLC/SNAP frames that isis typically uses contrary to the ethernet2 that normal IP packets use?

The FEA process offers API for generating/receiving raw IP frames and other such things.  If it cannot already
do raw Ethernet frames, it would not be difficult to add.

If someone wants to deal with the ISIS protocol part, I'll be happy to make sure FEA can
send/receive raw Ethernet frames.

Thanks,
Ben

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