Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 23:08:35 +0100 From: "Bart Van Kerckhove" <bart@it-ss.be> To: "Bruce M Simpson" <bms@spc.org> Cc: "freebsd-net@FreeBSD.org" <freebsd-net@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: OT - Quagga/CARP Message-ID: <001e01c64946$2bbad240$020b000a@bartwrkstxp> References: <20060316193740.GE11850@spc.org><003701c64941$ac548540$020b000a@bartwrkstxp> <20060316215207.GH11850@spc.org>
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Bruce M Simpson <bms@spc.org> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 10:36:20PM +0100, Bart Van Kerckhove wrote: >> ECMP was indeed one of the features i was looking for at that time, >> which i found to be impossible. >> I just don't like the idea of moving towards another platform just >> for this reason, since I'm very happy with freebsd's performance. >> There used to be a patch for ECMP, but it was a huge hack. very >> dirty at best. > > itojun recently committed a set of ECMP related changes to OpenBSD. > Unfortunately I have not had free time to review them in any detail. > What approach did they take? The ecmp patch i encountered for freebsd didn't lift the limitation regarding 1 route/pfx/pfxlen in the fib. Is this the case here too? Or did they take a new approach? > I hope andre@ is watching this thread, it's probably on his laundry > list too. I believe other parties may have implemented the hack you > are referring to. He is watching :) (lucky me/us ;]) Met vriendelijke groet / With kind regards, Bart Van Kerckhove bart@it-ss.be
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