Date: Sat, 03 Nov 2001 06:02:42 -0600 From: Randall Stewart <randall@stewart.chicago.il.us> To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu Cc: Lars Eggert <larse@ISI.EDU>, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SCTP and multiple default routes Message-ID: <3BE3DCE2.EE81B6E6@stewart.chicago.il.us> References: <3BE30097.C02C828D@stewart.chicago.il.us> <3BE30405.5040508@isi.edu> <20011102163709.R4360@blossom.cjclark.org>
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Crist: Great point.. I guess with this in mind I will investagate getting this in place (after I do a bit of debugging of our stack) ... R "Crist J. Clark" wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 12:37:25PM -0800, Lars Eggert wrote: > > Randall Stewart wrote: > > > > > I am working on a SCTP implementation for KAME and > > > have a question/issue with routing entries in > > > the current freebsd kernel (4.x stream). > > > > ... > > > > > What would be nice is to have multiple default routes > > > and then have the ability to be able to do a: > > > > I'm not sure multiple default routes make sense. > > They are however required to be truly standards compliant. From > RFC 1122 (Requirements for Internet Hosts -- Communication Layers), > > When there is no route cache entry for the destination host > address (and the destination is not on the connected > network), the IP layer MUST pick a gateway from its list of > "default" gateways. The IP layer MUST support multiple > default gateways. > > FreeBSD is not actually compliant on this issue. > -- > Crist J. Clark | cjclark@alum.mit.edu > | cjclark@jhu.edu > http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ | cjc@freebsd.org > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message -- Randall R. Stewart randall@stewart.chicago.il.us 815-342-5222 (cell phone) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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