[143957] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: VRF/MPLS on Linux
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hannes Frederic Sowa)
Wed Aug 24 08:42:19 2011
In-Reply-To: <20110824100607.GB2717@brian>
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 12:40:40 +0000
From: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@mailcolloid.de>
To: Brian Raaen <nanog@rhemasound.org>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 10:06 AM, Brian Raaen <nanog@rhemasound.org> wrote:
> The only issue with this is that the Linux box is not acting as a router,=
but as the egress devices. =C2=A0I'm trying to figure out how to properly =
get my application to 'color' the traffic. =C2=A0standard BSD sockets appea=
r to have no concept of 'Labels'. =C2=A0Still seeing what I can do to match=
the traffic. =C2=A0I am probably going to see if I can work out a hack wit=
h the development team to use DSCP values to tag the traffic and then act a=
ccordingly on the ingress router. =C2=A0I appreciate all the ideas presente=
d so far.
You could also have a look at linux namespaces if you want to manage
routing tables per process. Especially the new setns syscall could be
handy: <https://lwn.net/Articles/407495/>
Greetings,
Hannes
