Re: Proposal: remove encap from MROUTING

2007-02-07 Thread Bruce M. Simpson
Bill Fenner wrote: I plan to commit this patch some time this week. Please do. Committed, with doc and version bumps. It doesn't look like the TBF can be removed straight away; there are consumers. BMS "And I've been dreaming of sleep... and ape-men with metal parts." -- David Bowie

Re: Proposal: remove encap from MROUTING

2007-02-07 Thread Bill Fenner
>I plan to commit this patch some time this week. >---mroute-notunnels.diff, text/x-patch follows--- Please do. Only one comment: >@@ -859,8 +816,6 @@ X_ip_mrouter_done(void) > /* > * Reset de-encapsulation cache > */ >-last_encap_src = INADDR_ANY; >-last_encap_vif = NULL;

Re: Proposal: remove encap from MROUTING

2007-02-06 Thread Bruce M. Simpson
I count no objections and +1 in favour from Andre. To maintain POLA, I will decapitate (Argh, pun) it from HEAD with no MFC to begin with. Arguments in favour: * mrouted was removed from the base system. * PIM does not use MROUTING's IPIP tunnels, and PIM is regarded as the standard these day

Proposal: remove encap from MROUTING

2007-02-02 Thread Bruce M Simpson
How would you all feel about removing the old encapsulation methods from IPv4 multicast routing as OpenBSD has done? http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/sys/netinet/ip_mroute.c.diff?r1=1.42&r2=1.43 The last time I deployed any such infrastructure, I had to use gif(4); in a NATted world,