Am Samstag 10 Juli 2010, 10:40:52 schrieb Sven Eckelmann: > Daniel Seither wrote: > > Am 10.07.2010 01:07, Sven Eckelmann wrote: > > > batman-adv works quite well for us - but that doesn't mean that it is > > > good in context of the current kernel development. And who should know > > > it better than the netdev guys. > > > > Hagen Paul Pfeifer suggested in his message "a generalized architecture > > and a user space implementation of the protocol". What came to my mind > > when I read this again was a division of control plane and > > data/forwarding plane as known from traditional routing. > > > > The whole forwarding stuff would stay in the kernel, using a simple > > routing table (for destination X, send to node Y on interface Z). > > This would go against the bonding/alternating functionality. The bonding/alternating functionality could be part of the routing framework. I think there is something similar on IP layer routing in linux.
(a framework like this would make it very easy to port additional routing daemons for layer 2 routing, I already hear the 802.11s group crying because of competitors ;) ). Henning Rogge -- 1) You can't win. 2) You can't break even. 3) You can't leave the game. — The Laws of Thermodynamics, summarized
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