WG: [Xorp-hackers] Bugzilla #161

[Kristian Larsson]

On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 06:47:15PM +0200, Patrick Preuss wrote:
> Hello 
> 
> Many thanks for you answer. 
> 
> I have a question about the time, route tags are they currenly known by the
> rib if seen nothing so far? 
> 
> Is equal cost and unequal cost load balancing supported or is it planed?
First of all, the underlaying OS is doing the
actual forwarding of packets and it is up to the
OS to support several routes to one destination.
Most unix based os:s do that today but afaik xorp
does not yet support it. Trying to add two routes:
create protocols static route4 10.0.0.0/24 next-hop 192.168.77.1
create protocols static route4 10.0.0.0/24 next-hop 192.168.77.2
it will only use the latter.
Though this should not be too hard to change.

> Some questions is it possible to get informations from the modules like are
> they running, how many memory they use how and so one? So I will do some
> work in this direction, I think it is nessesay to get more information about
> the router from the cli.
I don't think it's possible to get this kind of
information right now. It'd be great if you could
do some work on it! :)

> And at last I think it is not optimal to determine the protocol from witch a
> Route was learn by the admin distance, there should be a sepperate field,
> because in production environment sometimes you have the need to change the
> ad for a protocol when you transit from a protocol to another. And If xorp 
> Should support more then one vrf, or mpls, more then one ospf daemon there 
> Should be a way to decide from witch we have learned the route.  
I agree that there should be information from
which protocol a route originates from, but isn't
there information about this in the current build?
Just as you say it's crucial for vrfs since you
may want to run more than one process of [insert
your favorite routing protocol].

> 
> Gruss 
>    Patrick Marc Preuss 
>    Nordstrasse 28
> 41569 Rommerskirchen
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>    
> 
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: xorp-hackers-admin@icir.org [mailto:xorp-hackers-admin@icir.org] Im
> Auftrag von Pavlin Radoslavov
> Gesendet: Dienstag, 6. September 2005 17:31
> An: "Patrick Preuß"
> Cc: xorp-hackers@icir.org; patrick.preuss@retail-sc.com
> Betreff: Re: [Xorp-hackers] Bugzilla #161 
> 
> > i have written a small patch for some problems described in bug 161 
> >  http://www.xorp.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=161
> 
> As a general advice for all Bugzilla entries related patches,
> please upload the patch as an attachment to the appropriate bugzilla
> entry, so it is easier to track it and apply it.
> 
> Thanks,
> Pavlin
> 
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