From owner-freebsd-rc@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 12 19:08:35 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-rc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77AD5106566B for ; Fri, 12 Mar 2010 19:08:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from 000.fbsd@quip.cz) Received: from elsa.codelab.cz (elsa.codelab.cz [94.124.105.4]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3680F8FC21 for ; Fri, 12 Mar 2010 19:08:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from elsa.codelab.cz (localhost.codelab.cz [127.0.0.1]) by elsa.codelab.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3EE5E19E023; Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:08:34 +0100 (CET) Received: from [192.168.1.2] (r5bb235.net.upc.cz [86.49.61.235]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by elsa.codelab.cz (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id EA16519E019; Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:08:31 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <4B9A912F.50105@quip.cz> Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:08:31 +0100 From: Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.9.1.8) Gecko/20100205 SeaMonkey/2.0.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Steve Polyack References: <4B9A8B92.6050704@comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <4B9A8B92.6050704@comcast.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-rc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: rc.d/rc.subr support for multiple FIBs X-BeenThere: freebsd-rc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Discussion related to /etc/rc.d design and implementation." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 19:08:35 -0000 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