From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 2 01:51:37 2004 Return-Path: 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 780FB16A4CE; Tue, 2 Mar 2004 01:51:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from cell.sick.ru (cell.sick.ru [217.72.144.68]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD20243D31; Tue, 2 Mar 2004 01:51:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from glebius@cell.sick.ru) Received: from cell.sick.ru (glebius@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cell.sick.ru (8.12.9/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i229pYQE024278 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 2 Mar 2004 12:51:35 +0300 (MSK) (envelope-from glebius@cell.sick.ru) Received: (from glebius@localhost) by cell.sick.ru (8.12.9/8.12.6/Submit) id i229pYuA024277; Tue, 2 Mar 2004 12:51:34 +0300 (MSK) Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 12:51:34 +0300 From: Gleb Smirnoff To: Kris Kennaway , Wes Peters , Andre Oppermann , freebsd-net@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20040302095134.GA24078@cell.sick.ru> Mail-Followup-To: Gleb Smirnoff , Kris Kennaway , Wes Peters , Andre Oppermann , freebsd-net@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org References: <4043B6BA.B847F081@freebsd.org> <200403011507.52238.wes@softweyr.com> <20040302031625.GA4061@scylla.towardex.com> <20040302042957.GH3841@saboteur.dek.spc.org> <20040302082625.GE22985@cell.sick.ru> <20040302084321.GA21729@xor.obsecurity.org> <20040302085556.GA23734@cell.sick.ru> <20040302092825.GD884@saboteur.dek.spc.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040302092825.GD884@saboteur.dek.spc.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Subject: Re: My planned work on networking stack X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 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, 02 Mar 2004 09:51:37 -0000 On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 09:28:25AM +0000, Bruce M Simpson wrote: B> However, not including an OSPF/BGP daemon doesn't preclude us from ensuring B> that APIs which are exposed for advanced routing functionality (multipath, B> etc) do the right thing across the board, are well defined, etc. Yes, this would be a good alternative. If FreeBSD routing API extends, and routing daemon's developers are notified about these extensions, then they will add support for these features. B> As to the second part of your mail: That sounds like a reasonable suggestion, B> I am sure Andre and others are paying attention to this and will take it on B> board when an implementation is nearer. If this is OK from you, I start working on it (second variant using sockaddr_aspath). I'm willing to see this feature, and I have a good testing conditions for it. Please, can you also comment Vladimir Grebenschikov's mail (he posted to -net only). -- Totus tuus, Glebius. GLEBIUS-RIPN GLEB-RIPE