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Date:      Thu, 4 Mar 2004 18:51:41 +0000 (UTC)
From:      "Bjoern A. Zeeb" <bzeeb-lists@lists.zabbadoz.net>
To:        James <haesu@towardex.com>
Cc:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: My planned work on networking stack
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.53.0403041845480.78288@e0-0.zab2.int.zabbadoz.net>
In-Reply-To: <20040304172529.GA86502@scylla.towardex.com>
References:  <4043B6BA.B847F081@freebsd.org> <200403011507.52238.wes@softweyr.com> <20040302042957.GH3841@saboteur.dek.spc.org> <20040303181034.GA58284@scylla.towardex.com> <20040304172529.GA86502@scylla.towardex.com>

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On Thu, 4 Mar 2004, James wrote:

> > J> 	why inject as_path info from userland to kernel "fib"?  may be netflow turning
> > J> 	into an api that quagga can take advantage of to gather accounting information
> > J> 	is more feasible?
> >
> > James, can you please describe your idea more understandible? I can't understand
> > your last sentence, sorry.
>
> 	sorry, i wasn't writing clearly :)
>
> 	what i meant is, an implementation of an API for netflow gathering
> 	stats from the kernel. once you have that API, perhaps quagga can take
> 	advantage of that API, to support netflow accounting by itself, along
> 	with as path information and all that..

quagga is _routing_ software. _accounting_ software is s.th. else.

What you want is an interface from quagga and s.th. like ng_netflow or
whatever it is called exactly(search the arhive) and a small piece
of software that merges information gathered from both called
an accounting daemon.


PS: I have cut down the Cc: (also removed current@)

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