RE: Yet Another BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) Python Implementation

["Peng Xiao (penxiao)" <penxiao () cisco com>]

Hi Jeff

As our priority, we will do MPLS VPN, IPv6, Flowspec firstly. In the future, we will consider multicast and EVPN.
Thanks.

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Tantsura [mailto:jeff.tantsura () ericsson com] 
Sent: 2015年8月7日 14:06
To: Peng Xiao (penxiao)
Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu; nanog () nanog org
Subject: Re: Yet Another BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) Python Implementation

Hi Peng,

Good stuff!

Any plans for multicast, RTC and EVPN AF's?

Regards,
Jeff

> On Aug 6, 2015, at 7:43 PM, Peng Xiao (penxiao) <penxiao () cisco com> wrote:
>
> Hi guys,
>
> Ipv6 and other address families are under development. We have already designed the data structures for them as you 
> can see from the documentation, but it's just some testing code and not stable and we are not doing them after 
> careful consideration.
> But at last, they will come out.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu [mailto:Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu] 
> Sent: 2015年8月7日 0:16
> To: Peng Xiao (penxiao)
> Cc: Jahangir Hossain; xxnog () ledeuns net; nanog () nanog org
> Subject: Re: Yet Another BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) Python Implementation
>
> On Thu, 06 Aug 2015 14:25:55 -0000, "Peng Xiao (penxiao)" said:
> > Currently, yabgp does not support IPv6 address family. We only support IPv4 now.
>
> http://tnx.nl/legacy-ip-only.svg
>
> Seriously guys.  It's 2015.  We really don't care what you hack for your own use - but publicly announcing stuff that 
> doesn't have IPv6 support is getting kind of embarassing...
>
> *especially* when it's a major vendor open-sourcing their code. (I'm still willing to cut a *little* slack for "two 
> guys and a stack of empty pizza boxes" software....)