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On 7/16/11 5:43 AM, Vlad Galu wrote:
> Hello,
>
> A couple of years ago, Stef Walter proposed a patch[1] that enforced the scope of routing messages. The general consesus was that the best approach would be the OpenBSD way - transporting the FIB number in the message and letting the user applications filter out unwanted messages.
>
> Are there any plans to tackle this before 9.0?

I haven't really been following this unfortunately but I see at least 
part got done. (ifconfig)

is there anything we need to do before 9.0 that is small but would 
make a big difference?
(i.e. fixes, tweaks)

Julian

One thing that I haven't done and I only recently remembered, was the 
ability to have a socket inherit
it's fib from the incoming connection SYN instead of from the socket 
opening process.
(at least I am pretty sure I never got that done. (must go check)).


> Thanks,
> Vlad
>
> [1] http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/134931_______________________________________________
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