From owner-freebsd-rc@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 15 18:31:30 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 01E8E106564A for ; Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:31:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jamesbrandongooch@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ew0-f227.google.com (mail-ew0-f227.google.com [209.85.219.227]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B60D8FC08 for ; Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:31:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy27 with SMTP id 27so2268044ewy.34 for ; Mon, 15 Mar 2010 11:31:28 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=THDrcVFcZmXPNWgF4Xy8V8vvvDqsla9vuc0KVmoJlTQ=; b=VjaaVZYcgryxOBsXy+2lWSgRqZPbbKvXK0GDH/N/VYY/7gXsciWQjnSnkPZTD7agfN OO3VYkzKJowGAXKLKyUWLQpTVupjZT70p27oFna+GFHdt75pf7tu6k1io2kQo+LS53E9 FyKkMAOpuzVwpdkS6HzYsdvhs7QBtqYlYJwW8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=dcjCG6oAsLSY8P2Z37n60dctdGPQM2UZfbq/mkM/9uftehbl+6J+9YLRD+jKuSlrgR /aub2rKrkxq4/vA6A9ewJVsipB3qXnC+hPmClo0cpRQzJh8A99OJbFFEuGmZBeLhR/HG Q4/NAYPrp4eWAqMqg/0kMNKo03teWcnRBhdMI= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.213.66.1 with SMTP id l1mr776781ebi.91.1268434408525; Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:53:28 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <4B9A8B92.6050704@comcast.net> References: <4B9A8B92.6050704@comcast.net> Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:53:28 -0600 Message-ID: <179b97fb1003121453r5f6bec26wdc39550115f32af0@mail.gmail.com> From: Brandon Gooch To: Steve Polyack Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-stable , freebsd-rc@freebsd.org, freebsd-docs@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: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:31:30 -0000 On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 12:44 PM, 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 exac= tly > what I'm looking for: > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=3D132483 > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=3D132476 > > My question is whether there are any plans to commit these into -CURRENT = and > possibly MFC them to a future 8.x-RELEASE. =A0Having multiple FIBs availa= ble > has been great so far, it goes hand and hand with Multi-IP Jails. =A0The = only > thing missing are native methods for constructing the routing tables on b= oot > (Yes, there is rc.local, but I don't want to go there...). > > Thanks, > Steve Polyack > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > I too would love to see this integrated; I've hacked together my own set of rc scripts (elegant in no way) to accomplish something similar on my systems. Also, general documentation regarding multiple FIBs (if that's what they are to be referred to as) in the official docs would be cool -- I'm not knowledgeable enough to do it myself (although I'm a pretty decent hand at "Documentation Testing" :) -Brandon