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Date:      Sun, 5 Jun 2005 17:28:57 +0100
From:      Bruce M Simpson <bms@spc.org>
To:        Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org>, freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: route metric
Message-ID:  <20050605162857.GB773@empiric.icir.org>
In-Reply-To: <20050603202109.GA22098@gargantuan.com>
References:  <20050603181636.GA54906@gicco.homeip.net> <20050603191351.GA54164@ip.net.ua> <20050603202109.GA22098@gargantuan.com>

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On Fri, Jun 03, 2005 at 04:21:09PM -0400, Michael W. Oliver wrote:
> there used to be patches floating around for 4.x that would allow a kind
> of metric, but IIRC you couldn't use two (or more) same-metric routes
> for per-packet balancing, rather the metric would be degraded for each
> packet that was forwarded to a particular destination (it's been a while
> since I looked, so I may be all wet on this).

We need to retool the PF_ROUTE ABI before we can do this.
This task should be on the 'Google Summer of Code' laundry list shortly.

BMS



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