Re: vrf support in FreeBSD

2006-05-10 Thread Milan Obuch
On Wednesday 10 May 2006 03:49, Edward B. DREGER wrote: > MO> Date: Tue, 9 May 2006 14:39:25 +0200 > MO> From: Milan Obuch > > MO> > JE> how do you want to select which table should be used? > MO> > Ingress interface. > MO> > MO> Sounds reasonable, one important point missing - packets locally > MO

Re: vrf support in FreeBSD

2006-05-10 Thread Milan Obuch
On Wednesday 10 May 2006 01:16, Julian Elischer wrote: > Ray Mihm wrote: > > Using ipfw tables is essentially a non-starter, IMHO. How would > > routing protocols use ipfw based tables, for example? Marko's work > > touches a lot of files, but I don't think it's heavy weight. > > > > I also think u

Re: vrf support in FreeBSD

2006-05-10 Thread Julian Elischer
Ray Mihm wrote: Point taken about the globals but layer 3 (IP) and layer 4 (TCP, UDP, etc) aren't modules yet and that shouldn't be a problem right? I'm not trying to trivialize or solve the problem here. But my point is, these shouldn't be show-stoppers when you consider the benefit of having t

Re: vrf support in FreeBSD

2006-05-09 Thread Ray Mihm
Point taken about the globals but layer 3 (IP) and layer 4 (TCP, UDP, etc) aren't modules yet and that shouldn't be a problem right? I'm not trying to trivialize or solve the problem here. But my point is, these shouldn't be show-stoppers when you consider the benefit of having this feature in Fre

Re: vrf support in FreeBSD

2006-05-09 Thread Edward B. DREGER
MO> Date: Tue, 9 May 2006 14:39:25 +0200 MO> From: Milan Obuch MO> > JE> how do you want to select which table should be used? MO> > Ingress interface. MO> MO> Sounds reasonable, one important point missing - packets locally MO> originated/'destinated'. MO> Other than that, fully acceptable. IMN

Re: vrf support in FreeBSD

2006-05-09 Thread Julian Elischer
Ray Mihm wrote: Using ipfw tables is essentially a non-starter, IMHO. How would routing protocols use ipfw based tables, for example? Marko's work touches a lot of files, but I don't think it's heavy weight. I also think using Marko's idea and Jails would allow create the notion of a logical sy

Re: vrf support in FreeBSD

2006-05-09 Thread Ray Mihm
Using ipfw tables is essentially a non-starter, IMHO. How would routing protocols use ipfw based tables, for example? Marko's work touches a lot of files, but I don't think it's heavy weight. I also think using Marko's idea and Jails would allow create the notion of a logical system and multiple

Re: vrf support in FreeBSD

2006-05-09 Thread Julian Elischer
Milan Obuch wrote: On Tuesday 09 May 2006 22:25, Ray Mihm wrote: Can't you just incorporate Marko's work at http://www.tel.fer.hr/zec/BSD/vimage/index.html? The design looks pretty clean too. And, XORP which probably is multiple tables aware, would make FreeBSD a really kick-ass routing plat

Re: vrf support in FreeBSD

2006-05-09 Thread Milan Obuch
On Tuesday 09 May 2006 22:25, Ray Mihm wrote: > Can't you just incorporate Marko's work at > http://www.tel.fer.hr/zec/BSD/vimage/index.html? The design looks > pretty clean too. And, XORP which probably is multiple tables aware, > would make FreeBSD a really kick-ass routing platform. > Unfortuna

Re: vrf support in FreeBSD

2006-05-09 Thread Ray Mihm
Can't you just incorporate Marko's work at http://www.tel.fer.hr/zec/BSD/vimage/index.html? The design looks pretty clean too. And, XORP which probably is multiple tables aware, would make FreeBSD a really kick-ass routing platform. Just my $.02 Ray. On 5/9/06, Julian Elischer <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: vrf support in FreeBSD

2006-05-09 Thread Julian Elischer
Milan Obuch wrote: On Tuesday 09 May 2006 06:54, Julian Elischer wrote: Pramod Srinivasan wrote: Hi Folks, I am curious to know if there is any plans to support multiple routing tables in FreeBSD's official release? There was some discussion on this topic last year, if there is any v

Re: vrf support in FreeBSD

2006-05-09 Thread Oliver Fromme
Julian Elischer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Pramod Srinivasan wrote: > > I am curious to know if there is any plans to support multiple routing > > tables in FreeBSD's official release? > > I am doing some small bits of work on this.. > > how do you want to select which table should be u

Re: vrf support in FreeBSD

2006-05-09 Thread Milan Obuch
On Tuesday 09 May 2006 08:00, Edward B. DREGER wrote: > JE> Date: Mon, 08 May 2006 21:54:18 -0700 > JE> From: Julian Elischer > > JE> how do you want to select which table should be used? > > Ingress interface. > Sounds reasonable, one important point missing - packets locally originated/'destina

Re: vrf support in FreeBSD

2006-05-08 Thread Milan Obuch
On Tuesday 09 May 2006 06:54, Julian Elischer wrote: > Pramod Srinivasan wrote: > >Hi Folks, > > > >I am curious to know if there is any plans to support multiple routing > >tables in FreeBSD's official release? > > > >There was some discussion on this topic last year, if there is any vrf > >patch

Re: vrf support in FreeBSD

2006-05-08 Thread Edward B. DREGER
JE> Date: Mon, 08 May 2006 21:54:18 -0700 JE> From: Julian Elischer JE> how do you want to select which table should be used? Ingress interface. Consider: 802.3ad, ECMP, FIB, multi RIBs (e.g., OSPF vs BGP weight), VRF I started working on all of the above late in 2003 on 4.x; the project was sh

Re: vrf support in FreeBSD

2006-05-08 Thread Julian Elischer
Pramod Srinivasan wrote: Hi Folks, I am curious to know if there is any plans to support multiple routing tables in FreeBSD's official release? There was some discussion on this topic last year, if there is any vrf patch for a latest release of FreeBSD, I would love to give it a try. I

vrf support in FreeBSD

2006-05-08 Thread Pramod Srinivasan
Hi Folks, I am curious to know if there is any plans to support multiple routing tables in FreeBSD's official release? There was some discussion on this topic last year, if there is any vrf patch for a latest release of FreeBSD, I would love to give it a try. Any help greatly appreciated. Than