Re: 802.1q Was (Re: Plans for 2.5 / 2.6 ???

[Andrey Savochkin <saw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Andi,

On Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 11:26:52AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 05, 2000 at 05:57:16PM +0200, Andrey Savochkin wrote:
> > I do not know how Zebra works, but the design described by you looks very
> > broken at the first glance.  If you run routing managements software on your
> > system you should perform all kernel state changes only through this
> > software.  Thus, the software do not need any kernel feedback about 
> > device/ip
> > state except the confirmations of its own commands.
> 
> I don't think it is broken. It seems to me that one of the design goals
> of netlink was to make it possible for multiple routing daemons (including
> the ``admin daemon'') to coexist nicely. Moving all policy into a big
> monolithic program would look broken for me.

OK, point taken.
But netfilter module may generate messages for routing daemons as well.

Best regards
                Andrey