My planned work on networking stack

Andre Oppermann andre at freebsd.org
Wed Mar 3 13:53:35 PST 2004


James wrote:
>         rewriting of routing stack and implementing FIB-like structure as what andre
>         proposed in this thread is very welcoming.

Just wait a few month and then have a look at what I put up. :-)

>         there are still other things freebsd lacks. such as uRPF that _SERVICE_PROVIDER_
>         can use. ipfw2 has verrevpath but all it does from what i know is strict uRPF
>         only. service providers like myself, if we were to use freebsd boxen to run our
>         network, i am not spending money on a router that doesn't do loose-check uRPF.
>         this sounds like something linux does too but i refuse to use that :P

That is pretty easy to implement.  I should have it by Friday at latest,
depends on when exactly I find time for it.

 ip verify unicast source reachable-via [any|ifn]

The ipfw2 command would look like this: ... versrcreach [fxp0]

What else is missing in FreeBSD?

-- 
Andre


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