Hi, Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 19:15:29, glebius wrote about "Re: route cacheing for gif(4) should be optional":
A>> However there have been reasons for A>> storing the rtentry pointer in struct gif. In the old days ip_output() A>> required an rtentry pointer to be passed on, this is no longer the case. A>> And it was sort of a safe-guard to make it harder to send the gif encapsulated A>> packets back through the same gif interface. That didn't work really well A>> and as I say it should be scapped instead of rigged on somewhere else with A>> yet another obscure option. ;) > As soon as I make route cacheing optional, I'd like to make it off by default. > Let me explain: FreeBSD is stable by default, not fast. Routecacheing is not > stable. > When a route flap occurs in dynamicly routed network my gif tunnels are stuck. > I'll describe in manpage, that more performance can be achieved by enabling > this > route cacheing. Any objections on this default? Tracking Cisco & etc. footsteps, there is yet another variant: add cached route with aging and set default aging time very small (e.g. 1 sec). This can give preferences of caching among with satisfactory time of renewal. I think this will be best variant, but if in a case it isn't adoptable, let's caching will be disabled totally by default. -netch- _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
