vrf support in FreeBSD

[Julian Elischer]

Milan Obuch wrote:

>On Tuesday 09 May 2006 22:25, Ray Mihm wrote:
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>>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.
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marco and I have discussed this.

it is a very heavyweight solution..
using ipfw tables as ancilary routing tables is a very light weight 
solution..

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>Unfortunately, this is not easily doable. There is major architecture change 
>after 4.x and Marko's work is 4.x based. But base design is really clean and 
>should be mimicked as close as possible, imho.
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>I know this is not easy task. Just shame on me I can't help here with some 
>code :(
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>Regards,
>Milan
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>Please reply to maling list only. I read it regularly.
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