From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 9 06:25:48 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1AE4016A40B for ; Tue, 9 May 2006 06:25:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from net@dino.sk) Received: from mail.netlab.sk (mail.netlab.sk [213.215.72.51]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E41A343D5D for ; Tue, 9 May 2006 06:25:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from net@dino.sk) Received: from [192.168.16.10] (home.dino.sk [213.215.74.194]) (AUTH: PLAIN milan@netlab.sk, TLS: TLSv1/SSLv3,256bits,AES256-SHA) by mail.netlab.sk with esmtp; Tue, 09 May 2006 08:30:15 +0200 id 00289C0C.446036F7.0000FA4F From: Milan Obuch To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 9 May 2006 08:25:27 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <5EB31780BD297F46812C8F495FA08F620438CAE3@electron.jnpr.net> <4460207A.9050505@elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <4460207A.9050505@elischer.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200605090825.28337.net@dino.sk> Subject: Re: vrf support in FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 09 May 2006 06:25:48 -0000 On Tuesday 09 May 2006 06:54, Julian Elischer wrote: > Pramod Srinivasan wrote: > >Hi Folks, > > > >I am curious to know if there is any plans to support multiple routing > >tables in FreeBSD's official release? > > > >There was some discussion on this topic last year, if there is any vrf > >patch for a latest release of FreeBSD, I would love to give it a try. > > I am doing some small bits of work on this.. > Do you have anything to show/test? I am really interested in this and would like to help, however, I have no real kernel knowledge in this area, sorry. > how do you want to select which table should be used? > (This is more of a 'survey' as I am trying to work out what I should > support) > I saw two approaches on this issue - older one (discovered by me sooner - spring 2003) was some MPLS patches made by Luigi Iannone uses per-socket option, somewhat similar to Cisco's method (specifying vrf on command line, however, I have no internal knowledge of IOS). Somewhat later I discovered Marco Zec's vimage patch, which enhances jails for this. This makes routing tables management and understanding simpler - at least for me. I would like to use second one or something similar. Regards, Milan