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From: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek-LWAfsSFWpa4@public.gmane.org>
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2011 01:39:26 +0200

>  To ensure a smooth transition and efficient testing later, we 
>  decided to offer a choice of routing algorithm but have not     
>  come to a final decision on how to design this choice yet. It
>  either will be a compile time option, a module parameter or a
>  runtime switch. Any suggestions / best practice tips ?

What do you mean by "algorithm"?  Do you mean the implementation
of the data-structure used to perform lookups?

We had two data structures for our main routing table lookup
implementation in ipv4, this was a mistake.  We spent the next couple
years maintaining two pieces of code, and finally investing lots of
effort to eliminate the older code.