Subject: Re: NetBSD as router
To: None <current-users@netbsd.org>
From: David Young <dyoung@pobox.com>
List: current-users
Date: 06/23/2003 12:50:46
On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 07:32:46PM +0300, Mihai CHELARU wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> >From unknown reasons my message didn't reach tech-net so I'll post it 
> here. I have several issues I encountered while working with NetBSD. 
> Hope I'll get some answers.
> 
> 1) Is there any chance to insert more than one route to a destination ?
> 2) If 1 is true it will do any kind of ballancing ?
> 3) If 2 is true will it be per-packet or per-destination ?

  There is code in the KAME project (kame.net) for an option called
  RADIX_MULTIPATH which lets you set more than one route to a destination.
  I think that the best way to describe the balancing it does is
  "per-flow."  It will not make an independent decision for each packet
  in a TCP socket, nor for each packet sent from the same UDP socket,
  because the first route chosen is cached in the TCP/UDP PCBs.

  I don't know the answer to your questions about MPLS/ALTQ/RSVP.

Dave

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