[Babel-users] Babel with VPP

[Dave Taht]

On Mon, Mar 11, 2024 at 8:22 AM Juliusz Chroboczek <jch at irif.fr> wrote:
>
> Hello Pim,
>
> > I finished a few small code changes in VPP to allow transit-net-less transport
> > of IPv4 and IPv6 in VPP and wrote about it on
> > https://ipng.ch/s/articles/2024/03/06/vpp-babel-1.html. Considering this
> > dataplane has some different idioms than Linux, it took a bit of work.

He also did a nice writeup of an inexpensive 32x100Gbit switch
recently, running... debian.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/debian-mellanox-100g-switch-pim-van-pelt-3pivf/

> First of all, thanks a lot for doing the write up.  In Academia, we are
> evaluated among others on the number of citations we get, not on the
> amount of deployment, so every time somebody does a quality write up
> mentioning usage of Babel, this is helpful.
>
> I find it interesting that you find Babel useful on a carrier network.
> Since I've been working under the impression that IS-IS is absolutely
> perfect (TM) in carrier networks, we have no experience whatsoever with
> that case.  For example, while Babel (the protocol) has good support for
> very high Hello rates (up to 100 Hz), I don't think we've every seriously
> experimented with sub-second convergence times.  Similarly, we do have
> some support for using layer-2 link state, but the current implementation
> is badly sub-optimal.  So please keep us posted with your experiences, and
> don't hesitate to share your ideas for improvements.
>
> Thanks again,
>
> -- Juliusz
>
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