Re: Multiple routing table support commited

Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote:
> On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 8:52 PM, Julian Elischer <julian_at_elischer.org> wrote:
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>   
>> 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:
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>> http://perforce.freebsd.org/fileViewer.cgi?FSPC=//depot/user/julian/routing/plan.txt
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> >From my read of your file, this doesn't address FreeBSD's utter lack of what
> they often call an RIB --- where routes are chosen to be put into the FIB.
> Zebra does this to some extent, but there is one glaring case where zebra
> cannot fix the problem and FreeBSD's actions need be improved.
>   

Please read the history of this thread, as there has been extensive 
discussion on this subject. FreeBSD doesn't need to have a RIB, that's a 
job for routing control plane software such as XORP and Quagga/Zebra.

There are strong arguments against using the kernel forwarding tables as 
an exchange medium, the strongest one being "that's not what it's for".

Thanks.
BMS