Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:08:31 +0100 From: Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz> To: Steve Polyack <korvus@comcast.net> Cc: freebsd-rc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: rc.d/rc.subr support for multiple FIBs Message-ID: <4B9A912F.50105@quip.cz> In-Reply-To: <4B9A8B92.6050704@comcast.net> References: <4B9A8B92.6050704@comcast.net>
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Steve Polyack wrote: > With multiple FIB support generally available in FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE it > would be quite beneficial to have the ability to build routing tables in > secondary FIBs as well as start certain applications in certain FIBs > from within rc.conf(5). > > I've done some poking around and came across two PRs which implement > exactly what I'm looking for: > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=132483 > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=132476 > > My question is whether there are any plans to commit these into -CURRENT > and possibly MFC them to a future 8.x-RELEASE. Having multiple FIBs > available has been great so far, it goes hand and hand with Multi-IP > Jails. The only thing missing are native methods for constructing the > routing tables on boot (Yes, there is rc.local, but I don't want to go > there...). It seems there is not interest by developers or not enough man power to take it and commit. I wrote about this PR in my e-mail in January: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-rc/2010-January/001816.html But it was left without any reply and all mentioned PRs are untouched. Miroslav Lachman
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