From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Varun Chandramohan Subject: [PATCH 0/4] Age Entry For IPv4 & IPv6 Route Table Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 10:09:57 +0530 Message-ID: <20070723100957.ca476679.varunc@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: sri@us.ibm.com, dlstevens@us.ibm.com, varuncha@in.ibm.com To: netdev@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from e31.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.149]:55503 "EHLO e31.co.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751912AbXGWEjn (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Jul 2007 00:39:43 -0400 Received: from d03relay02.boulder.ibm.com (d03relay02.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.227]) by e31.co.us.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l6N4dh0A026519 for ; Mon, 23 Jul 2007 00:39:43 -0400 Received: from d03av01.boulder.ibm.com (d03av01.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.167]) by d03relay02.boulder.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v8.4) with ESMTP id l6N4dhr0256320 for ; Sun, 22 Jul 2007 22:39:43 -0600 Received: from d03av01.boulder.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d03av01.boulder.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.13.3) with ESMTP id l6N4dgSc002550 for ; Sun, 22 Jul 2007 22:39:43 -0600 Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Hi, According to the RFC 4292 (IP Forwarding Table MIB) there is a need for an age entry for all the routes in therouting 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 for ipv4 and ipv6 and providing the interface for this value netlink. Signed-off-by: Varun Chandramohan ---