[dev] graceful restart for ospf

Akshata Danivasa akshata.danivasa at bigswitch.com
Wed May 10 13:33:27 EDT 2017


Hi Philippe,

We are currently moving form quagga to FRR and some customers have asked for ospf and ospf6 GR. Would you know when these features might get pushed upstream?

Thanks,
Akshata
> On May 10, 2017, at 5:09 AM, Renato Westphal <renato at opensourcerouting.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi Philippe,
> 
> No, I don't. I was just trying to get a clear picture of what's the
> situation regarding OSPF-GR, mostly to avoid duplicate efforts in the
> future. Thanks for the clarification.
> 
> Cheers,
> Renato.
> 
> On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 8:41 AM, Philippe Guibert
> <philippe.guibert at 6wind.com> wrote:
>> Hello Renato,
>> 
>> Good match !
>> You are right, that we have some features pending to be pushed to FRR upstream.
>> And this is true for graceful restart for ospf and ospf6.
>> 
>> Right now, I can not give you any ETA. I keep you informed.
>> Did you have any plans to provide the same, or did you have any need to get it ?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Philippe
>> 
>> On Thu, May 4, 2017 at 10:17 PM, Renato Westphal
>> <renato at opensourcerouting.org> wrote:
>>> Hi Philippe,
>>> 
>>> Regarding Graceful Restart for OSPF, Feng Lu mentioned a few years ago
>>> in quagga-dev[1] that he implemented RFC3623 and was planning to
>>> submit his work to upstream. Do you from 6wind have plans to port this
>>> work to FRR at some point?
>>> 
>>> Cheers,
>>> Renato.
>>> 
>>> [1] https://lists.quagga.net/pipermail/quagga-dev/2014-June/027964.html
>>> 
>>> On Tue, May 2, 2017 at 3:50 AM, Philippe Guibert
>>> <philippe.guibert at 6wind.com> wrote:
>>>> Hello Akshata,
>>>> 
>>>> Graceful restart is present for BGP daemon, for all the AFI/SAFI present in
>>>> the implementation.
>>>> Basically, you can use it for L3VPN usage, or for basic IPvx unicast.
>>>> 
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Philippe
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Tue, May 2, 2017 at 12:42 AM, Akshata Danivasa
>>>> <akshata.danivasa at bigswitch.com> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>> 
>>>>> I wanted to know if support for graceful restart is present on FRR or if
>>>>> it is planned in future.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> Akshata
>>>>> 
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> 
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> Renato Westphal




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