Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2011 12:14:33 -0700 From: Julian Elischer <julian@freebsd.org> To: "Alexander V. Chernikov" <melifaro@ipfw.ru> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, "Bjoern A. Zeeb" <bz@freebsd.org>, dudu@dudu.ro, freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FIB separation Message-ID: <4E330699.9000002@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <4E21BA0B.6080800@ipfw.ru> References: <A718ADB2-EC52-462C-A114-85053F1B2E55@dudu.ro> <20110717.004248.48765964696292481.hrs@allbsd.org> <4E21BA0B.6080800@ipfw.ru>
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On 7/16/11 9:19 AM, Alexander V. Chernikov wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hiroki Sato wrote: >> Vlad Galu<dudu@dudu.ro> wrote >> in<A718ADB2-EC52-462C-A114-85053F1B2E55@dudu.ro>: >> >> du> Hello, >> du> >> du> A couple of years ago, Stef Walter proposed a patch[1] that enforced >> du> the scope of routing messages. The general consesus was that the best >> du> approach would be the OpenBSD way - transporting the FIB number in the >> du> message and letting the user applications filter out unwanted >> du> messages. >> du> >> du> Are there any plans to tackle this before 9.0? >> >> I am looking into this and investigating other possible extensions in >> rtsock messages such as addition of a fib member to rt_msghdr. I am >> not sure it can be done before 9.0, though... > Actually there were an off-list discussion with bz@ and julian@ about > interface fibs and rtsock changes several weeks ago. > > Initial messages: > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-net/2011-June/029040.html > > I've got 3 different patches: > 1) straight forwarded kern/134931 fix (no fib in rtsock, no breaking > ABI, send to bz@) just got back from vacation in hungary so catching up...: Didn't he commit it? bz?? > 2) adding fib in rtsock with rtsock versioning and other ABI keeping tricks > 3) adding special RTA which can contain TLV pairs, with single defined > TLV with routing socket > > As a result of discussion, first patch was sent to bz@. Since patches > from kern/134931 are outdated attaching it here.
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