Multiple routing table support commited
Julian Elischer
julian at elischer.org
Sat May 10 00:52:06 UTC 2008
I have committed the base of teh Multi-routing-table support.
I am current;y waiting for it to loop back to me before a final
make universe test, but I think it should be ok.
if you do nothing you should not see any difference.
for a description of what and how, look at:
http://perforce.freebsd.org/fileViewer.cgi?FSPC=//depot/user/julian/routing/plan.txt
to compile it into a kernel you need
options ROUTETABLES=N where N is from 1 to 16
leaving it out, or setting it to 1 will have the effect of
creating a kernel that should behave as it did prior to this
commit.
In this work a kernel routing table is
referred to as a 'fib' (Forwarding Information Base).
I was informed by various routing people during this work
that this is the new-fangled correct name for an in kernel
routing(forwarding) table.
for more information see
setfib(1) and setfib(2)
This code, backported to 6.3 is running on Ironport appliances
and Cisco/Ironport has graciously allowed it to be given back.
julian
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