В Thu, 23.05.2002, в 11:17, Terry Lambert написал: > "Vladimir B. Grebenschikov" wrote: > > ÷ Wed, 22.05.2002, × 23:21, Mattias Pantzare ÎÁÐÉÓÁÌ: > > > Terry, FreeBSD has no support for BGP. To get BGP support you install a > > > router daemon. That inserts routes in the routing table in the kernel. The > > > kernel will do all packet forwarding. The kernel has to support two or > > > more routes to the same destination if you are going to do BGP (or OSPF) > > > equal cost multipath. > > > > > > I am sorry but ther is no way around it, if you have two links of equal > > > cost and want to use both, you have to have support for that in the > > > kernel. > > > > > > There are situations where this is needed, and you do get good performance > > > from it if you have many flows. One flow should always take the same > > > path. > > > > Yes! Thank you Mattias, it seems my english too bad to Terry understand > > me. Exactly this I want to say to Terry. > > So there *is* a BGP deficiency -- FreeBSD can't implement something > BGP knows about. > > I like the patches as they are. > > It is the job of FreeBSD to provide capability, not policy. > > The BGP code gets to dictate the policy when it decides how to > use the capability. > > So I *still* think the patches should go in.
I think it is better to discuss approach in freebsd-net before. > -- Terry -- Vladimir B. Grebenschikov [EMAIL PROTECTED], SWsoft, Inc. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
