On Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 03:29:25PM -0400, Tim Mattox wrote:
> I looked into fastroute about a year ago as well. It's been used in
> some clusters
> AFAIK, but I'm not sure if it's still being actively used. I was
> considering trying to
> use it myself in some cluster FNN research work I'm doing. But that's
> probably
> still 6 months away if I get to it. Since I'd be having to patch
> other things anyway,
> I have no qualms with it going away from mainline... Especially with GigE so
> cheap today, and legacy PCI bandwidths so low, it's not particularly
> economical
> today to route through nodes in an HPC cluster that uses TCP/IP interconnect.
>
> I don't know if the webserver/load balancing community would mind it going
> away though.
Well my main point is that the code _doesn't do anything_.
It is dead code, as-is, in the kernel. It would require patches to
actually work at all.
It is impossible that fastrouting is being actively used, without patches.
Jeff
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