vrf support in FreeBSD

[Ray Mihm]

Can't you just incorporate Marko's work at
http://www.tel.fer.hr/zec/BSD/vimage/index.html? The design looks
pretty clean too. And, XORP which probably is multiple tables aware,
would make FreeBSD a really kick-ass routing platform.

Just my $.02

Ray.

On 5/9/06, Julian Elischer <julian at elischer.org> wrote:
> Milan Obuch wrote:
>
> >On Tuesday 09 May 2006 06:54, Julian Elischer wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Pramod Srinivasan wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>Hi Folks,
> >>>
> >>>I am curious to know if there is any plans to support multiple routing
> >>>tables in FreeBSD's official release?
> >>>
> >>>There was some discussion on this topic last year, if there is any vrf
> >>>patch for a latest release of FreeBSD, I would love to give it a try.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>I am doing some small bits of work on this..
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Do you have anything to show/test? I am really interested in this and would
> >like to help, however, I have no real kernel knowledge in this area, sorry.
> >
> >
> >
> >>how do you want to select which table should be used?
> >>(This is more of a 'survey' as I am trying to work out what I should
> >>support)
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >I saw two approaches on this issue - older one (discovered by me sooner -
> >spring 2003) was some MPLS patches made by Luigi Iannone uses per-socket
> >option, somewhat similar to Cisco's method (specifying vrf on command line,
> >however, I have no internal knowledge of IOS). Somewhat later I discovered
> >Marco Zec's vimage patch, which enhances jails for this. This makes routing
> >tables management and understanding simpler - at least for me. I would like
> >to use second one or something similar.
> >
> >
> I have a rather 'simplistic' solution..
>
> I have alterred ipfw 'table' so that you can do
>
> ipfw table 2 add 1.2.3.4/24 2.3.4.5
>
> and you can then use it to do:
>
> ipfw add 300 fwd tablearg from myrouter to table(2) out recv fxp2
>
>
>
> >Regards,
> >
> >
>
>
> >Milan
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