On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 07:33:18PM +0200, Andre Oppermann wrote: A> > I'm working on a patch, which will bring AS path support. AS paths are going A> > to be stored separately from rtentries. The latter will have a reference to A> > AS paths. Each AS path is going to have a reference counter in self. A> A> Ugh, I don't like that at all. The AS path is of variable length and A> the kernel should not know anything about it.
We already had this discussion in the past. I know your position. A> The only thing the kernel *may* know about is the right- and leftmost AS. A> It may be more efficient to send the netflow data through a small helper A> application that just fills in the two AS number based on a mrt dump. A> A> > This feature is going to be utilized not only for Netflow, but also A> > in ipfw/dummynet. I think it would be very nice to shape bandwidth or A> > make policy routing decisions using AS path regexes in ipfw rules. A> A> Ugh. No, better have a way to 'tag' routes and make your decision based A> on those tags. Keep all the policy definition out of the kernel table. Isn't reference to extended information a tag? A> Additionally you have the tables support in ipfw already. It's far easier A> to extend Quagga/Zebra/etc to properly feed that table than to mangle the A> whole kernel for those purposes. That is a good idea, too. A> > P.S. And we should keep an eye on XORP. It is young now, but is going to A> > be a BSD-licensed alternative to zebra. A> A> Have a look at OpenBGPd in OpenBSD. Does a lot more, and is useable for A> production networks. If it had a nice interaction with OSPF, like zebra does, I'd consider moving to it. -- Totus tuus, Glebius. GLEBIUS-RIPN GLEB-RIPE _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
