<div dir="ltr">Hoi folks,<div><br></div><div>I work on VPP (a fast userspace based dataplane implementation <a href="https://fd.io/">https://fd.io/</a>), and helped contribute the ability for this dataplane to consume Netlink messages (<a href="http://github.com/pimvanpelt/lcpng">github.com/pimvanpelt/lcpng</a>)</div><div>One thing that I've been asked about quite a bit is the ability to program the VPP dataplane with MPLS forwarding. I use Bird2 in my own deployment (<a href="https://ipng.ch/s/articles/2021/09/21/vpp-7.html">https://ipng.ch/s/articles/2021/09/21/vpp-7.html</a>) and was wondering what the current thinking is for Bird to support signalling with LDP. Last I saw was:</div><div>- <a href="https://bird.network.cz/pipermail/bird-users/2017-September/011528.html">https://bird.network.cz/pipermail/bird-users/2017-September/011528.html</a></div><div>- <a href="https://birdofluck.livejournal.com/8996.html">https://birdofluck.livejournal.com/8996.html</a></div><div>- <a href="https://git.nic.cz/redmine/projects/bird/repository/show?rev=mpls">https://git.nic.cz/redmine/projects/bird/repository/show?rev=mpls</a></div><div>- <a href="https://bird.network.cz/pipermail/bird-users/2018-September/012760.html">https://bird.network.cz/pipermail/bird-users/2018-September/012760.html</a><br></div><div><div>- <a href="https://bird.network.cz/">https://bird.network.cz/</a></div><div><br></div><div>Maria, do you have pointers on the current state of the union for an LDP implementation for Bird? I'd like to add MPLS support to Linux Control Plane (<a href="https://ipng.ch/media/virtualnog/index.html">https://ipng.ch/media/virtualnog/index.html</a>)</div><div><br></div><div>groet,</div><div>Pim</div><div>--</div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">Pim van Pelt <<a href="mailto:pim@ipng.nl" target="_blank">pim@ipng.nl</a>> <br>PBVP1-RIPE - <a href="http://www.ipng.nl/" target="_blank">http://www.ipng.nl/</a></div></div></div>