Re: multi default routes in freebsd !?

2002-05-23 Thread Vladimir B.
÷ Wed, 22.05.2002, × 23:21, Mattias Pantzare ÎÁÐÉÓÁÌ: Terry, FreeBSD has no support for BGP. To get BGP support you install a router daemon. That inserts routes in the routing table in the kernel. The kernel will do all packet forwarding. The kernel has to support two or more routes to the

Re: multi default routes in freebsd !?

2002-05-23 Thread Terry Lambert
Vladimir B. Grebenschikov wrote: ÷ Wed, 22.05.2002, × 23:21, Mattias Pantzare ÎÁÐÉÓÁÌ: Terry, FreeBSD has no support for BGP. To get BGP support you install a router daemon. That inserts routes in the routing table in the kernel. The kernel will do all packet forwarding. The kernel has to

Re: multi default routes in freebsd !?

2002-05-23 Thread Vladimir B.
В Thu, 23.05.2002, в 11:17, Terry Lambert написал: Vladimir B. Grebenschikov wrote: ÷ Wed, 22.05.2002, × 23:21, Mattias Pantzare ÎÁÐÉÓÁÌ: Terry, FreeBSD has no support for BGP. To get BGP support you install a router daemon. That inserts routes in the routing table in the kernel. The

Re: multi default routes in freebsd !?

2002-05-22 Thread Vladimir B.
÷ Wed, 22.05.2002, × 00:52, Terry Lambert ÎÁÐÉÓÁÌ: Vladimir B. Grebenschikov wrote: Multipath routing is not as useful as you imply. Neither is round-robin'ing between a set of paths. It assumes that the pool retention time on the router is longer than the drain time for a single

Re: multi default routes in freebsd !?

2002-05-22 Thread Terry Lambert
Vladimir B. Grebenschikov wrote: Without the cooperation of the tother end, you don't have control of the symmetry of the return route. So maybe your packets are round-robin'ed out interfaces, but they all come back through the same interface, because you have no control of the other

Re: multi default routes in freebsd !?

2002-05-22 Thread Mattias Pantzare
Terry, FreeBSD has no support for BGP. To get BGP support you install a router daemon. That inserts routes in the routing table in the kernel. The kernel will do all packet forwarding. The kernel has to support two or more routes to the same destination if you are going to do BGP (or OSPF)

Re: multi default routes in freebsd !?

2002-05-21 Thread Vladimir B.
÷ Tue, 21.05.2002, × 09:37, Terry Lambert ÎÁÐÉÓÁÌ: Oleg Chebotarev wrote: Does anyone know when FreeBSD will support multiple default routes or multiple routes to the same network thru different interfaces? I have two default routes. One is IP address A. The other is IP address B.

RE: multi default routes in freebsd !?

2002-05-21 Thread Chris Knight
Howdy, -Original Message- From: Vladimir B. Grebenschikov Sent: Tuesday, 21 May 2002 17:25 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Oleg Chebotarev; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: multi default routes in freebsd !? [snip] Times ago there was hack for multipath routing on: ftp

Re: multi default routes in freebsd !?

2002-05-21 Thread Terry Lambert
Vladimir B. Grebenschikov wrote: There are some algoritms, for example round-robin It is not a problem if you assign two equal routes you know what you want. If you have two links to one provider and want to balance outgoing traffic it is much better to do it with to similar routes.

Re: multi default routes in freebsd !?

2002-05-21 Thread Vladimir B.
÷ Tue, 21.05.2002, × 13:13, Terry Lambert ÎÁÐÉÓÁÌ: OSPF have equal cost multupath, An BGP too (If I not mistaken) so lack of kernel support of more then one route for one destination is not good. Zebra on Linux can do OSPF equal cost multipath but on FreeBSD cant. Sounds like a

Re: multi default routes in freebsd !?

2002-05-21 Thread Oleg Chebotarev
The mpath diff is against 4.3 stable on given date. I was not even able to patch 4.3 release. OSPF and BGP does not came into play here yet, because to assign the same/different costs to different routes to the same destination I need to have routing table with 2 (or more) routes to the same

Re: multi default routes in freebsd !?

2002-05-21 Thread Vladimir B.
÷ Tue, 21.05.2002, × 15:54, Oleg Chebotarev ÎÁÐÉÓÁÌ: The mpath diff is against 4.3 stable on given date. I was not even able to patch 4.3 release. OSPF and BGP does not came into play here yet, because to assign the same/different costs to different routes to the same destination I need to

Re: multi default routes in freebsd !?

2002-05-21 Thread Oleg Chebotarev
The thing is that it does not work with 4.3 release. I tried it a few times and I saw a lot of error during patching. Does anyone knows how to get a 4.3 stable for a given date? --- Vladimir B. Grebenschikov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ÷ Tue, 21.05.2002, × 15:54, Oleg Chebotarev ÎÁÐÉÓÁÌ: The

Re: multi default routes in freebsd !?

2002-05-21 Thread Bakul Shah
BGP is a better idea (of course). You might also consider using BGP. And have I mentioned BGP? 8-) 8-). Whether to use BGP/OSPF is orthogonal to multipath use. Both OSPF and BGP allow you to install multiple next hops. Adding multipath support requires, at a minimum, changing struct

Re: multi default routes in freebsd !?

2002-05-21 Thread Terry Lambert
Vladimir B. Grebenschikov wrote: Multipath routing is not as useful as you imply. Neither is round-robin'ing between a set of paths. It assumes that the pool retention time on the router is longer than the drain time for a single path, such that you end up with a higher aggregate

Re: multi default routes in freebsd !?

2002-05-21 Thread Terry Lambert
Oleg Chebotarev wrote: The mpath diff is against 4.3 stable on given date. I was not even able to patch 4.3 release. It is absolutely trivial to bring the patch up to date against -stable. Bringing patches up to date against -current is a useless exercise (IMO), unless they will be integrated

Re: multi default routes in freebsd !?

2002-05-21 Thread Terry Lambert
Oleg Chebotarev wrote: The thing is that it does not work with 4.3 release. I tried it a few times and I saw a lot of error during patching. Does anyone knows how to get a 4.3 stable for a given date? man cvs You can checkout a source tree of a given date. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send

multi default routes in freebsd !?

2002-05-20 Thread Oleg Chebotarev
Does anyone know when FreeBSD will support multiple default routes or multiple routes to the same network thru different interfaces? Thank you, Oleg __ Do You Yahoo!? LAUNCH - Your Yahoo! Music Experience http://launch.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe:

Re: multi default routes in freebsd !?

2002-05-20 Thread Terry Lambert
Oleg Chebotarev wrote: Does anyone know when FreeBSD will support multiple default routes or multiple routes to the same network thru different interfaces? I have two default routes. One is IP address A. The other is IP address B. To which IP address do I forward a random packet?