Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 00:17:31 -0700 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: "Vladimir B. Grebenschikov" <vova@sw.ru> Cc: Mattias Pantzare <pantzer@ludd.luth.se>, Oleg Chebotarev <chebotarev@yahoo.com>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: multi default routes in freebsd !? Message-ID: <3CEC978B.EC795790@mindspring.com> References: <20020521032746.14287.qmail@web11607.mail.yahoo.com> <3CE9DD37.88DDCABC@mindspring.com> <1021965925.557.9.camel@vbook.express.ru> <3CEA0FC0.E71EC770@mindspring.com> <1021977292.24428.30.camel@vbook.express.ru> <3CEAB378.D4B7F9E@mindspring.com> <1022056574.460.30.camel@vbook.express.ru> <3CEBD9E5.58E633A@mindspring.com> <20020522192143.GA1345@skalman.campus.luth.se> <1022137336.456.8.camel@vbook.express.ru>
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"Vladimir B. Grebenschikov" wrote: > =F7 Wed, 22.05.2002, =D7 23:21, Mattias Pantzare =CE=C1=D0=C9=D3=C1=CC:= > > 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= =2E The > > kernel will do all packet forwarding. The kernel has to support two o= r > > more routes to the same destination if you are going to do BGP (or OS= PF) > > equal cost multipath. > > > > I am sorry but ther is no way around it, if you have two links of equ= al > > 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 perfor= mance > > 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. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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