[Xorp-users] wanted: OSPF metrics per neighbor. can vif help?

Nick Feamster feamster@lcs.mit.edu
Thu, 10 Nov 2005 01:48:04 -0500


On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 06:25:03AM +0100, Kristian Larsson wrote:
> > I understand what the RFC says, and sticking to standards seems like a
> > good idea in general.  If I could create multiple virtual interfaces
> > (vifs) on top of a single phyiscal interface (e.g., one vif per
> > neighbor) and subsequently set the interface cost per vif, then would
> > that not comply with the standard and give me the functionality we
> > want/need?
> Even if you could create several interfaces it
> would not do you much good. How would you separate
> the traffic between the interfaces?
> I beleive it to be very difficult.

Easy: each vif would have a separate IP address on which traffic could
be demuxed.

-Nick