From owner-freebsd-net Fri May 31 15:57:30 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from overlord.e-gerbil.net (e-gerbil.net [64.186.142.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47F8A37B417 for ; Fri, 31 May 2002 15:56:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: by overlord.e-gerbil.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id A47ED15E47; Fri, 31 May 2002 18:56:42 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 18:56:42 -0400 From: Richard A Steenbergen To: Andre Oppermann Cc: "Louis A. Mamakos" , Attila Nagy , Luigi Iannone , freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MPLS Message-ID: <20020531225642.GD385@overlord.e-gerbil.net> References: <200205291413.g4TEDLRG075458@whizzo.transsys.com> <3CF4E483.2510639@pipeline.ch> <200205291522.g4TFMdRG076033@whizzo.transsys.com> <3CF4FCFC.3D760508@pipeline.ch> <20020529180204.GK33611@overlord.e-gerbil.net> <3CF51E7C.E9A47960@pipeline.ch> <20020529233411.GO33611@overlord.e-gerbil.net> <3CF5F4ED.369BCE83@pipeline.ch> <20020530150612.GP33611@overlord.e-gerbil.net> <3CF6436D.ADA51D7F@pipeline.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3CF6436D.ADA51D7F@pipeline.ch> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 05:21:17PM +0200, Andre Oppermann wrote: > > > Please explain how that would not work for servers? > > It would work but not optimal because the packet flow is different for > locally terminated/generated packets. Howso? Both do a routing lookup exactly the same. > > This is a non sequitur. All routes will be available through the kernel > > RIB, but for exact matches only. When is a longest prefix match needed > > there? > > When the routing daemon instructs us to remove the prefix 10.0.0.0/8 > when we also have 10.0.0.0/9 and 10.128.0.0/9. That is not a longest prefix match, this is an exact match. > Where? Do you mean rt_metrics? Yes. -- Richard A Steenbergen http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras PGP Key ID: 0x138EA177 (67 29 D7 BC E8 18 3E DA B2 46 B3 D8 14 36 FE B6) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message