From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 12 22:53:30 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F5A9106566C; Fri, 12 Mar 2010 22:53:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jamesbrandongooch@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ew0-f228.google.com (mail-ew0-f228.google.com [209.85.219.228]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD8748FC0C; Fri, 12 Mar 2010 22:53:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy28 with SMTP id 28so271405ewy.13 for ; Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:53:28 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=THDrcVFcZmXPNWgF4Xy8V8vvvDqsla9vuc0KVmoJlTQ=; b=VjaaVZYcgryxOBsXy+2lWSgRqZPbbKvXK0GDH/N/VYY/7gXsciWQjnSnkPZTD7agfN OO3VYkzKJowGAXKLKyUWLQpTVupjZT70p27oFna+GFHdt75pf7tu6k1io2kQo+LS53E9 FyKkMAOpuzVwpdkS6HzYsdvhs7QBtqYlYJwW8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=dcjCG6oAsLSY8P2Z37n60dctdGPQM2UZfbq/mkM/9uftehbl+6J+9YLRD+jKuSlrgR /aub2rKrkxq4/vA6A9ewJVsipB3qXnC+hPmClo0cpRQzJh8A99OJbFFEuGmZBeLhR/HG Q4/NAYPrp4eWAqMqg/0kMNKo03teWcnRBhdMI= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.213.66.1 with SMTP id l1mr776781ebi.91.1268434408525; Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:53:28 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <4B9A8B92.6050704@comcast.net> References: <4B9A8B92.6050704@comcast.net> Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:53:28 -0600 Message-ID: <179b97fb1003121453r5f6bec26wdc39550115f32af0@mail.gmail.com> From: Brandon Gooch To: Steve Polyack Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-stable , freebsd-rc@freebsd.org, freebsd-docs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: rc.d/rc.subr support for multiple FIBs X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 22:53:30 -0000 On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 12:44 PM, Steve Polyack wrote: > With multiple FIB support generally available in FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE it > would be quite beneficial to have the ability to build routing tables in > secondary FIBs as well as start certain applications in certain FIBs from > within rc.conf(5). > > I've done some poking around and came across two PRs which implement exac= tly > what I'm looking for: > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=3D132483 > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=3D132476 > > My question is whether there are any plans to commit these into -CURRENT = and > possibly MFC them to a future 8.x-RELEASE. =A0Having multiple FIBs availa= ble > has been great so far, it goes hand and hand with Multi-IP Jails. =A0The = only > thing missing are native methods for constructing the routing tables on b= oot > (Yes, there is rc.local, but I don't want to go there...). > > Thanks, > Steve Polyack > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > I too would love to see this integrated; I've hacked together my own set of rc scripts (elegant in no way) to accomplish something similar on my systems. Also, general documentation regarding multiple FIBs (if that's what they are to be referred to as) in the official docs would be cool -- I'm not knowledgeable enough to do it myself (although I'm a pretty decent hand at "Documentation Testing" :) -Brandon