kern/134931:[route] [fib] Route messages sent to all socket
listeners regardless of setfib
Bruce Simpson
bms at incunabulum.net
Mon Aug 31 17:57:24 UTC 2009
Stef Walter wrote:
> I agree in principle with Mark that having future route messages might
> be able to let routing daemons differentiate between various fibs and
> manage them, and that this might be a feature.... However any
> implementation of that would likely break API and ABI, and very probably
> exist purely in FreeBSD 9.x.
>
Surely a good time for someone to act on the suggestion that we
implement the Netlink socket family? It is a Tag-Length-Value protocol,
so it can easily adapt to new additions.
It exists as an informational RFC, therefore it is not encumbered by the
GPL; however it would need to be carefully implemented in FreeBSD.
It's who dares wins -- I wouldn't object to doing it, but I'm committed
to doing other stuff for the moment.
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