FIB separation

Hiroki Sato hrs at FreeBSD.org
Sat Jul 16 16:04:36 UTC 2011


Vlad Galu <dudu at dudu.ro> wrote
  in <A718ADB2-EC52-462C-A114-85053F1B2E55 at dudu.ro>:

du> Hello,
du>
du> A couple of years ago, Stef Walter proposed a patch[1] that enforced
du> the scope of routing messages. The general consesus was that the best
du> approach would be the OpenBSD way - transporting the FIB number in the
du> message and letting the user applications filter out unwanted
du> messages.
du>
du> Are there any plans to tackle this before 9.0?

 I am looking into this and investigating other possible extensions in
 rtsock messages such as addition of a fib member to rt_msghdr.  I am
 not sure it can be done before 9.0, though...

-- Hiroki
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