Hello!
Julian Anastasov writes:
>
> Well, I now see, it is used in gated. But only in one route table
> which is a drawback.
gated netlink code came from Alexey. I had to adjust the preference for
"static" in gated to get the desired effect.
>
> More correctly, the settings are more complex than the mentioned
> daemons can handle. Sticking with one route table is not enough in most
> of the cases. This is the main reason the mentioned patches for static
> routes to exist. They are more manageable (with scripts) for setups where
> routing protocols are not used.
Well we can be happy for the well-designed routing/netlink system Linux
got and as you say routing software does not yet fully utilize this.
But I think we agree that we shouldn't have kernel to compensate for this.
I did some benchmarking/profiling on the routing lookup/cache/garbage
collection it seems to be well done too. Having listened to all fuzz
about routing lookups at GIGE speeds. :-)
Cheers.
--ro
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