MLD and PIMv6 Development

This page aims to collect on-going project related to IPv6 Multicast development.

Meeting: Weekly Wednesday from 9:30 PM IST on Bluejeans https://bluejeans.com/377688464.

Project Link

https://github.com/orgs/FRRouting/teams/pimv6/projects

Feature List:

• https://anotepad.com/notes/3amwaite

Issues and PRs are tracked on the PIMv6 team projects: https://github.com/orgs/FRRouting/teams/pimv6/projects

MOM:

Nov 19, 2021:

• https://anotepad.com/notes/8k6mkrif

• https://github.com/FRRouting/frr/files/7658464/IPv6.Multicast.Design.-.Community.pptx

Dec 2, 2021:

• Considered one more design approach where we can run pimv6 as a thread inside the same daemon.
• After considering all the 3 design approaches, concluded on using Design 2.
• Yang model was discussed as well.

Dec 10, 2021:

• https://anotepad.com/notes/meksi9fc
• VMware team members to work on the initial pim6d daemon and data structure changes and to implement MLDv1 and MLDv2
• Whereas DELL team will work on PIMv6 development.

Dec 16, 2021:

• Discussed on feature List and CLIs.
• Decided to use local GitHub for some part of the development and then use FRR master branch for the remaining development.
• UT will be done by the developers.
• Vijay from VMware to support for topotest and end-to-end functionality testing.
• Compilation issues once address family changes are merged. Intimate Dell team to start working along to fix it.

Dec 22, 2021:

• Very few people joined the meeting, updated the status of the project.