[Olsr-dev] Migration from olsrd v1 to v2

[Claudio Pisa]

On 07/28/2015 12:59 PM, Henning Rogge wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 12:44 PM, Saverio Proto <(spam-protected)> wrote:
>>> maybe it is too early for production.
>>> our migration path is: olsrd2 for IPv6 and olsrd1 for IPv4
>>> (which means: if there is something wrong with IPv6 you can still use IPv4)
>>
>> That looks like a reasonable migration path.
>>
>> If I think of a migration path for Ninux Roma, this could be a possible option.
>> However we get our IPv6 upstreams from special severs that run IPv6
>> BGP(quagga) / olsrd1 with quagga plugin.
>>
>> I have no idea if olsrdv2 interacts with Quagga at the moment. Does it ?
>>
>> If not that could be a blocking feature to propose the upgrade in Ninux Roma.
>>
>> I think this is something worthed to be discussed at the Battlemesh.
>> Unfortunatly this year I will not make it to be there.
> 
> It should be quite easy to integrate Quagga in olsrd2... if you have
> experience with Quagga.
> 
> I have never worked with Quagga myself, so this is a problem. We
> cannot use Quagga's Zebra library because it is GPL, which is in
> conflict with the OONF license.
> 
> I would really like to have a clean rewrite of the necessary Zebra
> client code to get something with a clean license... the Quagga plugin
> for olsrd has a hack as a license.
> 
> So if you find someone to do the work towards the Quagga side I will
> do the work on the OONF side.

Hi.
Perhaps plugins from both sides (quagga and olsrd2) that import routes
from a specific routing table (or routing entry proto field) could work
around the license issue?
But also: would this work only for Linux?

Clauz