[Xorp-users] xorp1.6 fails to run on Debian Etch 2.6.18-5-486

[Ben Greear]

On 05/06/2010 10:37 AM, Adam Greenhalgh wrote:
> Aidan,
>
> There have been some fairly significant changes in how xorp is run
> since 1.4, and its back being a community project again. A number of
> changes have occured to the stack. The current svn on sourceforge is
> going to be the basis of the 1.7 release, it isn't a huge change over
> 1.6 , with the major change being the adoption of scons. Ben has been
> porting some of his basic changes back from his xorp.ct tree into
> sourceforge svn to fix bugs and a few other things. The idea is to
> roll the 1.7 release fairly shortly because of the inclusion of scons
> . 1.8 will follow fairly shortly after and be an adotpion of a lot
> more ben's tree (maybe all).
>
> My suggestion would be for you to try the sourceforge svn code on a
> test box and see if that works for you, and help us iron any bugs out
> in it before we roll the 1.7 release.

I am certain there are some un-caught exceptions in 1.7 BGP, because
I hit them while fixing up the harness code in xorp.ct, and also reproduced
some of them when configuring bgp as virtual routers.

But, fixing the harness was a good bit of patches and also includes
some logic that depends on other xorp.ct patches, so I'm not sure if
it's worth trying to backport it into 1.7.  From what I understand
about 1.7 changes, it's likely those same BGP exception issues exist in 1.6.

I'm not sure if these are the same issues that Aidan is hitting or not.

If we're going to attempt to release 1.7 with as few changes as possible,
I think we should just go ahead and release, and pour all effort into
1.8.

If I am allowed to push most or all of xorp.ct into 1.8, then I can
give developers ( and non-profits, students, etc) licenses to our virtual-router
software so people can easily configure large virtual router networks using xorp.
This makes it trivial to test many large network scenarios that would otherwise
take lots of effort and/or hardware (like two clouds of OSPF routers joined
by two BGP routers, etc).

Thanks,
Ben

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Ben Greear <greearb at candelatech.com>
Candela Technologies Inc  http://www.candelatech.com