Thanks! This helps a lot. On 18 December 2017 at 19:40, Jiri Svoboda <jirik.svob...@seznam.cz> wrote: > Hi JZr, > > to your question at the meeting regarding routing in HelenOS: > > - For an API to configure routes look at uspace/lib/c/include/inet/inetcfg.h > functions inet_sroute_*(). These are used by the inet command. It's not a > perfect match, we might want to distinguish between persistent configuration > made by the administrator and dynamic routes created by a routing daemon, > but it should be a good start. > > - Currently HelenOS does not forward received datagrams and it's not > possible to enable it using a configuration option. It should be rather easy > to enable forwarding and just a little bit more work to make it > configurable. The gist is that there are two places in inetsrv where we call > inet_recv_dgram_local() - this function delivers the datagram locally. These > should be replaced with a call to another function that decides whether the > datagram is for local delivery or for forwarding. Then there should be a > forward function that decreases (and checks) TTL and calls > inet_route_packet(), depending on whether forwarding is enabled or not. > > I'll look into the changes needed to enable forwarding soon (tm). > > Regards, > Jiri
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