On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 05:21:17PM +0200, Andre Oppermann wrote: > > > Please explain how that would not work for servers? > > It would work but not optimal because the packet flow is different for > locally terminated/generated packets.
Howso? Both do a routing lookup exactly the same. > > This is a non sequitur. All routes will be available through the kernel > > RIB, but for exact matches only. When is a longest prefix match needed > > there? > > When the routing daemon instructs us to remove the prefix 10.0.0.0/8 > when we also have 10.0.0.0/9 and 10.128.0.0/9. That is not a longest prefix match, this is an exact match. > Where? Do you mean rt_metrics? Yes. -- Richard A Steenbergen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras PGP Key ID: 0x138EA177 (67 29 D7 BC E8 18 3E DA B2 46 B3 D8 14 36 FE B6) To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
