From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 25 13:03:07 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id NAA02288 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 25 Jan 1995 13:03:07 -0800 Received: from halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu (halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu [18.26.0.159]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id NAA02282 for ; Wed, 25 Jan 1995 13:03:03 -0800 Received: by halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu; id AA09164; Wed, 25 Jan 1995 16:00:36 -0500 Date: Wed, 25 Jan 1995 16:00:36 -0500 From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <9501252100.AA09164@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> To: hsu@cs.hut.fi (Heikki Suonsivu) Cc: freebsd-questions@freefall.cdrom.com, ohtroute@niksula.hut.fi Subject: What interface to use for configurable routing priorities? In-Reply-To: <9501251310.AA11237@shadows.cs.hut.fi> References: <9501251310.AA11237@shadows.cs.hut.fi> Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk < We need various information passed to and from kernel, > - priority of a network (source & destination), > - priority of a protocol, > - tuning the effect of various other parameters, like length of packets, > - bandwidth limits (for interfaces or routes), > - getting statistics. Various bits of this should use sysctl, and per-interface bits should use an ioctl. Per-route bits should use the pre-existing routing interface to set a value in the route metrics. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant