On Thu, 11 Apr 2002, Julian Anastasov wrote:
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> Hello,
>
> > If i am not mistaken zebra is now capable of using more tables as well.
>
> Last time I checked it 6 months ago and today I don't see
> much progress on the web site but you can be right :)
>
hrm. Maybe its in their commercial version ;-<
Note how slow they are in updating it these days. Someone approached
me a while back with suggestions to join in forking (and liberate) Zebra
from the current (lack of) activity. My answer at the time is to put more
effort in Bird probably.
> Yes, we can ping indirect nexthops, do layer 7 health checks,
> alter the nexthops' weights. Usually we don't demand such super
> job from a routing daemon, the things are mostly "do it yourself" :)
>
My sentiments exactly. Any such beast when written should be policy
driven. If i dont need layer 7 health checks as stimulus, then
dont use them. Other things would be remote SNMP queries etc.
cheers,
jamal
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