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Date:      Tue, 14 Apr 2009 22:28:22 -0700
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
To:        "Sam Fourman Jr." <sfourman@gmail.com>
Cc:        pcc@gmx.net, freebsd-net@freebsd.org, steve@ibctech.ca, sthaug@nethelp.no
Subject:   Re: Multiple default routes / Force external routing
Message-ID:  <49E57076.7040509@elischer.org>
In-Reply-To: <11167f520904141722r16b537a9o58497c9719fb6fc5@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <20090413.220932.74699777.sthaug@nethelp.no>	 <49E41755.8050701@elischer.org> <49E48799.1000300@ibctech.ca>	 <20090414.212318.41684722.sthaug@nethelp.no> <11167f520904141722r16b537a9o58497c9719fb6fc5@mail.gmail.com>

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Sam Fourman Jr. wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 2:23 PM,  <sthaug@nethelp.no> wrote:
>>>> I think you are rather confused about what Multiple FIBs is..
>>>> All it is is teh  ability to make a packet use a particular
>>>> FIB on it's outgoing path. There is not such thing as an interface
>>>> being "In" a FIB. All interfaces are still visible to the routing code
>>>> by default, and The IP stack still knows about them.I think the IP
>>>> stack set's the 'loopback' flag on a packet regardless of the FIB
>>>> selected if teh dest is one of its own addresses.
>>>>
>>>> What you want is VIMAGE.
> 
> is VIMAGE fully integrated into  FreeBSD 8 CURRENT? (I believe this
> answer is no)
> also is VIMAGE expected to make it into FreeBSD 8?

not fully but a lot of it is under way

> 
> Maybe Someone will give a VIMAGE update at BSDCan this year

I'm hoping the report will be "try this option in your kernel"

but real life tends to make these plans variable.

> 
> Sam Fourman Jr.





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