Hello,
On Thu, 11 Apr 2002, jamal wrote:
> > Well, I now see, it is used in gated. But only in one route table
> > which is a drawback.
>
> I thought gated was capable of using at least main and local.
Looking in the sources, main+default and after patching
with one table more
> 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 :)
> It would probably be actually better policy to enter all static routes in
> one table.
It is not always possible, all we are using Advanced Linux
Networking, though :)
> Robert, when you enter a static route from gated, is it registered as
> proto gated or proto static?
I see that gated uses many protos while Zebra uses small
number (one?). Actually, gated can use RTPROT_STATIC for its table.
> While i like Julians patch (adding no complexity, IMO) I see that the
> functionality could be very easily moved outside the kernel where you
> could also do a lot more fancy things (very complex decision making
> example: based on which devs go down, what next multihops to use etc).
> Unfortunately, it does require extra code in user space.
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" :)
> cheers,
> jamal
Regards
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Julian Anastasov <ja@xxxxxx>
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