My planned work on networking stack

Gleb Smirnoff glebius at cell.sick.ru
Tue Mar 2 01:51:37 PST 2004


On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 09:28:25AM +0000, Bruce M Simpson wrote:
B> However, not including an OSPF/BGP daemon doesn't preclude us from ensuring
B> that APIs which are exposed for advanced routing functionality (multipath,
B> etc) do the right thing across the board, are well defined, etc.

Yes, this would be a good alternative. If FreeBSD routing API extends, and 
routing daemon's developers are notified about these extensions, then they
will add support for these features.

B> As to the second part of your mail: That sounds like a reasonable suggestion,
B> I am sure Andre and others are paying attention to this and will take it on
B> board when an implementation is nearer.

If this is OK from you, I start working on it (second variant using sockaddr_aspath).
I'm willing to see this feature, and I have a good testing conditions for it.

Please, can you also comment Vladimir Grebenschikov's mail (he posted to -net only).

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