Source Routing

[Andre Oppermann]

Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 01:25:25AM +0000, Bruce M Simpson wrote:
> > On Sun, Dec 28, 2003 at 02:15:11PM -0800, afshin wrote:
> > > Is any source routing facility available in FreeBSD ?
> >
> > I think you mean policy routing. It is on the wishlist for 5.3.
> >
> What is missing in ipfw(8) and its ``fwd'' option from being a
> successful implementation of policy routing?

In the technical sense it is.  For larger systems you want automatic
configuration from a routing daemon.  ipfw also has its limits when
it comes to a large number of prefixes which are changing all the
time.

-- 
Andre


> - by using the match probability feature, you can implement
>   the equal-access routing;
> 
> - by checking the source IP adress, you can implement
>   the source-sensitive routing;
> 
> - by checking the IP TOS field, you can implement the
>   quality-of-service routing;
> 
> - etc.
> 
> Cheers,
> --
> Ruslan Ermilov
> FreeBSD committer
> ru at FreeBSD.org
> 
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