Subject: Re: kern/22792 gif and routing
To: None <tech-net@netbsd.org>
From: Michael van Elst <mlelstv@serpens.de>
List: tech-net
Date: 09/15/2003 19:58:57
vjardin@free.fr (Vincent Jardin) writes:

>> 	KAME code has quickhack fix for this - lookup route every 5 seconds.
>> 	i don't think it clean enough, but as there's no other workaround
>> 	found, i'll bring the fix in near future.

>What's happened if there are 1000 gif interfaces ? Does it mean that it needs 
>1000 timers ? It could be an scaling issue for a tunnel server.

There is no timer but a timestamp that is checked for every packet
sent through the interface. The overhead is constant (relative to
the number of interfaces).


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