Re: [PATCH] Age Entry For IPv4 Route Table

[Varun Chandramohan <varunc@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

David Miller wrote:
> From: Varun Chandramohan <varunc@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 10:51:39 +0530
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>> YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / ������������ wrote:
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>>> In article <20070625102838.9d1fee20.varunc@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (at Mon, 25 Jun 2007 10:28:38 +0530), Varun Chandramohan <varunc@linux.vnet.ibm.com> says:
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>>>> According to the RFC 4292 (IP Forwarding Table MIB) there is a need for an age entry for all the routes in the routing table. The entry in the RFC is inetCidrRouteAge and oid is inetCidrRouteAge.1.10.
>>>> Many snmp application require this age entry. So iam adding the age field in the routing table and providing
>>>> the interface for this value via /proc/net/route.
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>>> I'm not in favor of adding new field(s) to /proc/net/route.
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>> Do you think it will break any user level functionality? I have tested
>> with netstat, route and net-snmp which reads from the same /proc
>> interface. They seem to work fine.
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> You can't change procfs file output format, someone's shell scripts
> or whatever out there will break.  Just testing some common packages
> isn't a way to be able to change procfs file output, it's a user
> exported API and just like system calls you cannot change them.
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Hi Dave,
    
        Ok i understand. But can you suggest anyother way to do the above?

Regards,
Varun