Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 00:07:11 +0100 From: Max Laier <max@love2party.net> To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Cc: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> Subject: Re: bikeshed for all! Message-ID: <200712130007.20720.max@love2party.net> In-Reply-To: <476061FD.8050500@elischer.org> References: <476061FD.8050500@elischer.org>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Wednesday 12 December 2007, Julian Elischer wrote: > So, I'm playing with some multiple routing table support.. > the first version is a minimal impact version with very limited > functionality. It's done that way so I can put it in RELENG_6/7 without > breaking ABIs (I hope). Later there will be a more flexible version > for-current. > > Here's the question.. > > I need a word to use to describe the network view one is currently on.. > e.g. if you are usinghe second routing table, you could say I've set > xxx to 1 (0 based).. > > > current;y in my code I'm using 'universe' but I don't like that.. > > one could think of it as a routing plane.. > each routing plane has he same interfaces on it but they are logically > treated differently becasue each plane has a different routing table. > > > so here's an axample of it in use now... > the names should change... > > setuniverse 1 netstat -rn > [shows table 1] > setuniverse 2 route add 10.0.0.0/24 192.168.2.1 > setuinverse 1 route add 10.0.0.0/24 192.168.3.1 > setuniverse 2 route -n get 10.0.0.3 > [shows 192.168.2.1] > setuniverse 1 route -n get 10.0.0.3 > [shows 192.168.3.1] > setuniverse 2 start_apache > [appache starts, always using 192.168.2.1 to reach the 10.0.0 net. > > > also the syscall is setuniverse() > > so, you see I really need a better name.... > setrtab? > > rtab? rtbl? > > and the command should be called "????" FWIW, OpenBSD just added a "-T num" switch to concerned programs like route and netstat. As far as I can tell they rely entirely on pf to select a table - so there is no way to start a program "inside" a certain network view. OTOH, how - in your system - would you decide which table to use for forwarded packets? More to the bikeshed pov, "universe" seems rather broad. "netview" comes to mind. "rtabselect", though that has a lot of characters, but then again "setuniverse" is even one char longer ;) -- /"\ Best regards, | mlaier@freebsd.org \ / Max Laier | ICQ #67774661 X http://pf4freebsd.love2party.net/ | mlaier@EFnet / \ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Against HTML Mail and News [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBHYGmoXyyEoT62BG0RAg+VAJ4rpTXJJT4oG39TpsqRjMYkorgLfACfYdn4 Ncs7jEwGT43fYB2HgI688zM= =npBU -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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