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From: Robert Olsson <Robert.Olsson@data.slu.se>
To: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com>
Cc: netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: suggestion for routing code improvement
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 22:15:17 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <15540.40277.772027.111512@robur.slu.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3CB47B90.B4CF1FAD@nortelnetworks.com>


Chris Friesen writes:
 > So, what do you guys think?  Is this a reasonable thing to do?  I think that it
 > makes the system nicely symmetrical, as opposed to the asymmetrical handling of
 > current kernels.

 Hello!

 Why not leave the routing policy job to a routing daemon?

 There is risk of routing havoc if the kernel start acting as one.

  L-uu1:/# ip route list | wc -l 
   110441

 This Linux box has 110441 bgp routes. Internet routing is very much
 like a living organism. Routes comes and goes.

 If some interface goes down for some reason the routing daemon gets it's 
 netlink message "link down" and recalcs the routing topologi.

 If the interface comes back the router daemon recalcs again and installs
 appropriate routes for this moment which may very well be different 
 compared to before "link down".

 Cheers.

						--ro

  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-04-10 20:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-04-10 17:51 suggestion for routing code improvement Chris Friesen
2002-04-10 18:53 ` Andi Kleen
2002-04-10 20:15 ` Robert Olsson [this message]
2002-04-10 20:56   ` Chris Friesen
2002-04-10 23:02     ` Robert Olsson
2002-04-11  2:24       ` Julian Anastasov
2002-04-11 11:29         ` Robert Olsson
2002-04-11 12:08           ` Julian Anastasov
2002-04-11 12:18             ` jamal
2002-04-11 12:58               ` Julian Anastasov
2002-04-11 13:05                 ` jamal
2002-04-11 13:01             ` Robert Olsson
2002-04-11 13:06               ` Julian Anastasov
2002-04-11 14:53                 ` Robert Olsson
2002-04-11 15:24                   ` Julian Anastasov
2002-04-11 16:05                     ` Robert Olsson
2002-04-10 21:37 ` Julian Anastasov
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-04-10 20:41 Nivedita Singhvi

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