Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 22:18:14 -0500 From: Brad <brad@comstyle.com> To: "freebsd-net@FreeBSD.org" <freebsd-net@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: OT - Quagga/CARP Message-ID: <20060317031814.GI23644@blar.home.comstyle.com> In-Reply-To: <001601c6494c$32f188f0$020b000a@bartwrkstxp> References: <20060316222111.GD23644@blar.home.comstyle.com> <001601c6494c$32f188f0$020b000a@bartwrkstxp>
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On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 11:51:44PM +0100, Bart Van Kerckhove wrote: > > Heh. At first I read this and wasn't sure what ECMP was, I've never > > seen anyone use that acronym before. > > Hmm, sorry if I used a non-common term there, it's the only abbreviation i > know of ;> I have always just used the expanded form. :) > > The code Itojun commited to the > > OpenBSD tree consisted of code to add multipath support for radix > > trees. The routing code still needs to be modified to use this new > > support though. > > > > > > radix tree with multipath support. from kame. deraadt ok > > user visible changes: > > - you can add multiple routes with same key (route add A B then route > > add A C) > > - you have to specify gateway address if there are multiple entries > > on the table (route delete A B, instead of route delete A) > > kernel change: > > - radix_node_head has an extra entry > > - rnh_deladdr takes extra argument > > I have looked into KAME before, and was puzzled to see it was in KAME, but > not in *bsd :-> There are lots of things in the KAME CVS repo that has not been integrated into any of the *BSD's. > > > > TODO: > > - actually take advantage of multipath (rtalloc -> rtalloc_mpath) > > > > > > http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/sys/net/radix.c > > http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/sys/net/radix_mpath.c > > I have no kernel coding experience whatsoever. How hard would it be to merge > this with freebsd? I am not a FreeBSD developer or even a user for that matter so I cannot really comment. Andre would probably be the best person to comment on how much work would be required to integrate this code.
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