CFR: FIB handling improvements

Sam Fourman Jr. sfourman at gmail.com
Wed Aug 21 22:05:11 UTC 2013


On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 5:28 PM, Will Andrews <will at firepipe.net> wrote:

>
> Other places in rc.d/routing can make use of 'all' in that case.
>
> No, loopback host routes are not installed into all FIBs, only FIB 0.
> This is with rt_add_addr_allfibs == 0 (see rtinit1()), which probably
> explains why.  We could add an override for lo0 addresses, but perhaps
> this is something that should be configurable?  i.e. allow the
> administrator to specify in rc.conf which FIBs lo0's host route should
> be placed on?
>
> Will, you have my wheels turning, configurable tuning for lo0's host
route.
This would defiantly be a interesting feature.
-- 

Sam Fourman Jr.


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