Dmitrij, On Wed, Feb 08, 2012 at 10:50:11AM +0000, Dmitrij Tejblum wrote: D> I would suggest to remove RTM_MISS messages at all. I believe that there D> is no sofware that actually use it. OTOH, in some cases RTM_MISS D> messages are really disturbing. D> D> E.g., a router without default route (e.g. runnung BGP) will always D> generate some amount of RTM_MISS messages. They have no use, but require D> daemons to parse them, and could result in overflow on routing socket D> queue and, in turn, cause some important routing messages to be dropped. D> D> I have a patch that add a sysctl to turn off RTM_MISS messages, but D> since no one use them, it would be easier to just remove them entirely.
Sounds reasonable. A patch that adds a sysctl is definitely a commit candidate. But we can't be sure that no one uses these messages, so we can't remove them entirely. -- Totus tuus, Glebius. _______________________________________________ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
