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Date:      Wed, 03 Mar 2004 22:53:31 +0100
From:      Andre Oppermann <andre@freebsd.org>
To:        James <haesu@towardex.com>
Cc:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: My planned work on networking stack
Message-ID:  <404653DB.186DA0C2@freebsd.org>
References:  <4043B6BA.B847F081@freebsd.org> <200403011507.52238.wes@softweyr.com> <20040302031625.GA4061@scylla.towardex.com> <20040302042957.GH3841@saboteur.dek.spc.org> <20040302082625.GE22985@cell.sick.ru> <20040303181034.GA58284@scylla.towardex.com>

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James wrote:
>         rewriting of routing stack and implementing FIB-like structure as what andre
>         proposed in this thread is very welcoming.

Just wait a few month and then have a look at what I put up. :-)

>         there are still other things freebsd lacks. such as uRPF that _SERVICE_PROVIDER_
>         can use. ipfw2 has verrevpath but all it does from what i know is strict uRPF
>         only. service providers like myself, if we were to use freebsd boxen to run our
>         network, i am not spending money on a router that doesn't do loose-check uRPF.
>         this sounds like something linux does too but i refuse to use that :P

That is pretty easy to implement.  I should have it by Friday at latest,
depends on when exactly I find time for it.

 ip verify unicast source reachable-via [any|ifn]

The ipfw2 command would look like this: ... versrcreach [fxp0]

What else is missing in FreeBSD?

-- 
Andre



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