[Jool-list] Moving to jool

[Nico Schottelius]

Good evening Jordi, Alberto,


JORDI PALET MARTINEZ <jordi.palet at consulintel.es> writes:

> Hi Nico,
>
> I have read your complete document when you sent it to the list, and I want to thank you for it.
>
> I'm a frequent user of Jool, and teach about it to the community and
> customers.

Very nice!

> I was also surprised about your UDP failures, I've never seen that before, so as you just said, it may be due to your specific configuration. I recall having tested Jool the first time in Ubuntu 16.x, but I often try to upgrade the kernel to the latest available release, etc.
>
> In fact, I usually check and adjust myself CPU affinity (even I do that in my OpenWRT routers!).
>
> One suggestion, in case you can invest a bit of extra time on this, so to make your work more comprehensive, will be to test also using VPP:
>
> https://docs.fd.io/vpp/17.07/nat64_doc.html

Interesting! I have added it to my backlog, I wasn't aware of nat64 in
vpp!

> I will actually say, if you allow me, "forget Tayga", it doesn't
> scale, isn't longer mantained, and Jool and VPP are much better
> targets to focus on!

I assumed so. However, there is one really, really big advantage of
tayga: it is included in every distribution. This was actually the
reason why we chose tayga in 2017 for datacenterlight.ch.

Now that we hit cpu limitations we are more willing to manually maintain
it and it is somewhat "ok", because we only have 6 routers. I'm actually
considering to spend some of our resources to package jool for Alpine
Linux, which is our target os for the new router generation.

Either way, I have to thank you guys, you did a quite impressive job
with jool!

Best regards from Switzerland,

Nico


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