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Subject: Re: multiple routing tables?
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Patrick Verkaik wrote [2003-07-02]:
> 
> Does FreeBSD support multiple routing tables?  If not, is any work being
> done in this area? From what I can find, it seems that Linux has this.
> 
> The reason I'm asking is that I'd like to simulate a number of BGP routers
> on one box.

At the 2nd European BSD conference there were two presentations about
this topic, one was the stack virtualization cited by Brooks, the
other was "Advanced VPN support" that, if I remember correctly,
implemented multiple routing tables.

More info at http://bsdconeurope.org/papers/, see

Riccardo Scandariato,
Advanced VPN support on FreeBSD systems


marco
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