OT - Quagga/CARP

[Bart Van Kerckhove]

Bruce M Simpson <bms at spc.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 10:36:20PM +0100, Bart Van Kerckhove wrote:
>> ECMP was indeed one of the features i was looking for at that time,
>> which i found to be impossible.
>> I just don't like the idea of moving towards another platform just
>> for this reason, since I'm very happy with freebsd's performance.
>> There used to be a patch for ECMP, but it was a huge hack. very
>> dirty at best.
>
> itojun recently committed a set of ECMP related changes to OpenBSD.
> Unfortunately I have not had free time to review them in any detail.
>
What approach did they take?
The ecmp patch i encountered for freebsd didn't lift the limitation 
regarding 1 route/pfx/pfxlen in the fib. Is this the case here too? Or did 
they take a new approach?
> I hope andre@ is watching this thread, it's probably on his laundry
> list too. I believe other parties may have implemented the hack you
> are referring to.
He is watching :) (lucky me/us ;])

Met vriendelijke groet / With kind regards,

Bart Van Kerckhove
bart at it-ss.be