Date: Tue, 9 May 2006 08:25:27 +0200 From: Milan Obuch <net@dino.sk> To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vrf support in FreeBSD Message-ID: <200605090825.28337.net@dino.sk> In-Reply-To: <4460207A.9050505@elischer.org> References: <5EB31780BD297F46812C8F495FA08F620438CAE3@electron.jnpr.net> <4460207A.9050505@elischer.org>
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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 for a latest release of FreeBSD, I would love to give it a try. > > I am doing some small bits of work on this.. > Do you have anything to show/test? I am really interested in this and would like to help, however, I have no real kernel knowledge in this area, sorry. > how do you want to select which table should be used? > (This is more of a 'survey' as I am trying to work out what I should > support) > I saw two approaches on this issue - older one (discovered by me sooner - spring 2003) was some MPLS patches made by Luigi Iannone uses per-socket option, somewhat similar to Cisco's method (specifying vrf on command line, however, I have no internal knowledge of IOS). Somewhat later I discovered Marco Zec's vimage patch, which enhances jails for this. This makes routing tables management and understanding simpler - at least for me. I would like to use second one or something similar. Regards, Milan
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