# # $XORP: xorp/devnotes/work_plan.txt,v 1.26 2003/10/02 22:52:28 pavlin Exp $ # Priority: - H (High) - M (Medium) - L (Low) - Defer (Deferred) Who: - AG (Atanu Ghosh) - JC (Javier Cardona) - LR (Luigi Rizzo) - MH (Mark Handley) - OH (Orion Hodson) - PR (Pavlin Radoslavov) - FB (Fred Bauer) ================================ FEA ========================================= Immediate Tasks Priority Who --------------- -------- --- For 0.5: * Complete Linux support. M FB+PR * UDP send/receive interface. H OH+PR For 0.x: * Use the library for monitoring the network H Everyone interface state from the FEA * Equal-cost multipath L ?? * Add support for discard interface H FB (pkts routed on that interface are discarded). Longer Term tasks ----------------- * TCP connection relay. ================================ RIB ========================================= Immediate Tasks Priority Who --------------- -------- --- For 0.5: * Handle route process death H AG/MH/PR - see the error-handling document (e.g., exit if the FEA is gone) - Example: if BGP goes away, then the RIB should pull-out all routing state that comes from BGP Also, if the FEA goes away, then RIB should go away too. - PR look into it, and if too compicated, then move it to 0.x * Change the RIB to use the RefTrie L AG For 0.x: * Support recursive BGP Lookups L MH * Add XRL interface to dump routing table state M MH (for monitoring/informational purpose: xorpsh, etc). * Add support for discard interface H PR (pkts routed on that interface are discarded). * Equal-cost multipath M MH - add info when a set of routes should be together; propagate that info down to the FEA * Add route tag support to routing->RIB interface M MH to support policy filtering - ask Mark re. this (PR) Longer Term tasks ----------------- ================================ BGP ========================================= Immediate Tasks Priority Who --------------- -------- --- For 0.5: * IPv6/multi-protocol support H AG * Finish Kdoc'ing BGP L as needed For 0.x: * Test harness vs Cisco and Zebra to validate tests L AG For 1.0: * Filters M ?? - which user-specified filters? - how to do user configuration? - how to handle filter changes? * Originating routes M AG * Handling routes redistributed from IGPs. M AG + MH * Implement MinRouteAdvertisementInterval M ?? Longer Term tasks ----------------- * Communities * Route flap damping * Optionally not storing RIB-IN * Confederations * Route Reflector * Route Refresh * TCP MD5 (wait for FreeBSD-5.2(?)) * TCP connection mediation through FEA ================================ Multicast =================================== Immediate Tasks Priority Who Time --------------- -------- --- ---- For 0.5: * RIB<->PIM integration and testing (after PIM testing) H PR+MH 1-2 weeks * Integration of PIM/MLD/MFEA and RTRMGR H PR 2 weeks * Finish Kdoc'ing PIM, MLD6IGMP, MFEA L PR background For 0.x: * IGMPv3 and MLDv2 implementation L PR+other 1-2m * PIM-SSM support L PR 1 week * Framework for regression tests for multicast H-M PR+other 1 m * IPv6 support and tests for PIM/MLD/MFEA M PR 1-1.5m - Initial support: e.g. no scoping * Port the FreeBSD PIM kernel mods to NetBSD and H PR 1 week OpenBSD Longer Term tasks ----------------- * Bidir-PIM implementation Wish PR 1.5-3m * Implement multicast support for Click Wish PR 2-3 months ================================ StaticRoutes =============================== Immediate Tasks Priority Who Time --------------- -------- --- ---- For 0.5: * Implement Static Routes H PR 2 weeks ================================ Spoof IGP =================================== Immediate Tasks Priority Who Time --------------- -------- --- ---- For 0.5: * Come-up with a better name * Implement Spoof IGP H PR 2 weeks ============================== RTRMGR ======================================== Immediate Tasks Priority Who --------------- -------- --- For 0.5: * Isolation test suite PartlyDone MH+AG For 0.x: * Add target name and instance H MH+PR Longer Term tasks ----------------- * Proper authentication/ACL framework. ================================ XORPSH ===================================== Immediate Tasks Priority Who --------------- -------- --- For 0.5: * BGP user tutorial H Everyone * FEA user tutorial (vifs, etc) H Everyone * Make sure that XORPSH can be started via a shell script H PR For 0.x: For 1.0: * Task interruption. - make sure that the task is interrupted at the H MH+PR server process. XXX: if we hit Ctrl-C in UNIX, what is the expected result? Undetermined, hence do we need to do anything in case of xorpsh? Longer Term tasks ----------------- ================================ XRL ======================================= Immediate Tasks Priority Who --------------- -------- --- For 0.5: * Switch to reliable XRLs Done OH For 1.0: * Interface specification (reliable/non-reliable) M OH ================================ RIP ======================================= Immediate Tasks Priority Who --------------- -------- --- For 0.5: * Implementation or RIPv2 H OH For 0.x: * Implementation of RIPng M OH ================================ SNMP ======================================= Immediate Tasks Priority Who --------------- -------- --- For 0.x: * Improve documentation H ?? * Fix the crash when unloading modules H ?? ================================ TESTS ======================================= Immediate Tasks Priority Who --------------- -------- --- For 0.5: * Use BGP/RIB/FEA test-router on xorp8 H Everyone (think what exactly we want to happen) ================================ Other ======================================= For 1.0: Longer Term tasks ----------------- * Implement Web manager H ?? * Simulation-like environment for running XORP H Defer PR 3-6 months * Rewrite CLI L PR 2-3 weeks ================================ Next Release ================================ * Next release (xorp-0.4): August 28, 2003 Immediate Tasks Priority Who --------------- -------- --- * Add multiprotocol support to BGP M AG ================================ Next-Next Release =========================== * Next release (xorp-0.5): October 16, 2003 Immediate Tasks Priority Who --------------- -------- --- * Add automated process running for testing xorpsh on M FCFS xorp8 (expect scripts, etc) * Finder notifications handling H Everyone (handling death of processes you depend on) BGP: done RIB: todo (PR) multicast: todo (PR) * Need to complete support for error handling as H Everyone specified in error doc (bgp: done; multicast, rib: todo(PR)) * Work-out the conventions for command-line options M OH * Test programs infrastructure L OH+PR * Implement everywhere command-line option for the H PR+Everyone finder: port number, and host name (see xorp/docs/libxipc/finder_command_line.txt) * Add tasks/projects to the web page wishlist L Everyone (for other people) ================================ Next Stable Release ========================= * Next stable release (xorp-1.0): ?? ??, 200? - ??