Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 15:12:17 -0500 (EST) From: Alex Pilosov <alex@pilosoft.com> To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Cc: Nick Rogness <nick@rogness.net>, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: same interface Route Cache Message-ID: <Pine.BSO.4.10.10103171510100.8329-100000@spider.pilosoft.com> In-Reply-To: <200103171937.OAA75388@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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On Sat, 17 Mar 2001, Garrett Wollman wrote: > That's the way Internet routing is supposed to work. If your routing > table says a packet supposed to go one way, and it really needs to go > another way, that's *user error* -- if you misconfigure your routing, > FreeBSD will do what you ask it to; it can't read your mind! There are legitimate reasons why you may want more flexibility than simple destination-based routing. I.E. Having two connections, one satellite (fast cheap but high-latency) and one long-distance modem connection (slow, expensive but low-latency) and dynamically routing telnet packets over the modem connection. Or, traffic engineering: routing packets from a certain blocks over a certain interface, etc. -alex To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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