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From: Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@cell.sick.ru>
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On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 01:10:34PM -0500, James wrote:
J> >   Currently I'm working on my Netflow implementation, and I have faced the
J> > following problem: I've already got global routing in my routing table, but it
J> > lacks AS (Autonomous System) information. The routing daemon (zebra in my case)
J> > already knows ASes, but this informations is lost when routing information is
J> > injected into kernel. It'll be nice to add AS path to struct rtentry.
J> >   Seems like there is no problem with extending struct rtentry, but injecting
J> > this info from userland requires changes to routing API. I see two ways of
J> > implementing it:
J> 
J> 	why inject as_path info from userland to kernel "fib"?  may be netflow turning
J> 	into an api that quagga can take advantage of to gather accounting information
J> 	is more feasible?

James, can you please describe your idea more understandible? I can't understand
your last sentence, sorry.

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