bikeshed for all!

[Li, Qing]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-net at freebsd.org 
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-net at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Julian Elischer
> Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2007 2:35 PM
> To: FreeBSD Net
> Subject: bikeshed for all!
> 
> So, I'm playing with some multiple routing table support..
> the first version is a minimal impact version with very 
> limited functionality.
> It's done that way so I can put it in RELENG_6/7 without 
> breaking ABIs (I hope).
> Later there will be a more flexible version for-current.
> 
> Here's the question..
> 
> I need a word to use to describe the network view one is 
> currently on..
> e.g. if you are usinghe second routing table, you could say 
> I've set xxx to 1 (0 based)..
> 
> 
> current;y in my code I'm using 'universe' but I don't like that..
> 
> one could think of it as a routing plane..
> each routing plane has he same interfaces on it but they are 
> logically treated differently becasue each plane has a 
> different routing table.
> 


   Are you saying an interface can belong to multiple routing
   domains ? So how is that going to work with overlapping
   prefixes, which routing domain does the interface feed
   the packets to ?


> 
> so here's an axample of  it in use now...
> the names should change...
> 
> setuniverse 1 netstat -rn
> [shows table 1]
> setuniverse 2 route add 10.0.0.0/24 192.168.2.1
> setuinverse 1 route add 10.0.0.0/24 192.168.3.1
> setuniverse 2 route -n get 10.0.0.3
> [shows 192.168.2.1]
> setuniverse 1 route -n get 10.0.0.3
> [shows 192.168.3.1]
> setuniverse 2 start_apache
> [appache starts, always using 192.168.2.1 to reach the 10.0.0 net.
> 
> 
> also the syscall is setuniverse()
> 
> so, you see I really need a better name....
> setrtab?
> 
> rtab? rtbl?
> 
> and the command should be called "????"
> 
> 
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