From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ben Greear Subject: Re: rfc-editor@rfc-editor.org: RFC 3549 on Linux Netlink as an IP Services Protocol Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2003 11:00:54 -0700 Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Message-ID: <3F046F56.1080808@candelatech.com> References: <12785.1057250058@marajade.sandelman.ottawa.on.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: To: Michael Richardson , hadi@znyx.com, hormuzd.m.khosravi@intel.com, ak@suse.de, kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru, "'netdev@oss.sgi.com'" In-Reply-To: <12785.1057250058@marajade.sandelman.ottawa.on.ca> Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Please make the 'table-id' field to be at least 16 bits. Now that we have VLANs and other types of virtual interfaces, it would be nice to be able to have a routing table for each interface, for example. 640k was not enough for everyone, and ~250 routing tables isn't either :) From section 3.1.1: Table ID: 8 bits Table identifier. Up to 255 route tables are supported. RT_TABLE_UNSPEC An unspecified routing table. RT_TABLE_DEFAULT The default table. RT_TABLE_MAIN The main table. RT_TABLE_LOCAL The local table. The user may assign arbitrary values between RT_TABLE_UNSPEC(0) and RT_TABLE_DEFAULT(253). Thanks, Ben -- Ben Greear President of Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com ScryMUD: http://scry.wanfear.com http://scry.wanfear.com/~greear