Subject: Re: more on policy routing (was: Re: multiple ppp links)
To: Christian Kuhtz <ckuhtz@paranet.com>
From: Paul Goyette <paul@pgoyette.bdt.com>
List: current-users
Date: 01/24/1997 06:34:40
On Fri, 24 Jan 1997, Paul Goyette wrote:

> But, what is really being asked for here is _policy-based_ routing, where
> some policy dictates who gets to use which network resources.  This is
> definitely not implemented in NetBSD, and is only available (AFAIK) in
> high end routing products (like Cisco...), and only in recent versions.

Actually, you don't really need a high end router for policy-based
routing, all you need is to implement BGP4.  This is the routing protocol
that all the big Internet boys use to exchange routing information with
each other.