Multipath Routing

[Ryan Mooney]

Better yet would be equal cost multi-path, since the code to solve that
should (mostly) be able to handle the general case :)

ryan at speaks.without.putting.up.the.code.com :)

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> [this was posted under another thread, so I am reposting as a new thread to 
> hopefully generate some responses.  thanks.]
> 
> I am no programmer, so forgive my ignorance in that respect, but why can't a 
> metric be used to differentiate routes to the same destination network 
> within the routing table?  I happened to be googling and found:
> 
> http://daily.daemonnews.org/view_story.php3?story_id=3878
> 
> which describes a patch to -STABLE that does exactly what I am talking 
> about.
> 
> Is there any reason why this shouldn't be implemented by default in the OS?  
> I am not being critical of the FreeBSD operating system by any means, just 
> curious.
> 
> Personally, I would very much like the ability of Zebra to feed the kernel 
> the same route via multiple gateways, differentiating those routes by 
> metric value.
> 
> Comments?
> 
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