On 6/13/05, Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@netbsd.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 02:31:48PM +0200, Hubert Feyrer wrote:
> > On Tue, 7 Jun 2005, Ivo Vachkov wrote:
> > >Policy Routing:
> > >- extend "struct rtentry" to include additional information for TOS
> > >fields, Source based routing, maybe even protocol based routing, ttl
> > >routing, packet lenght routing
> > >- add support in /sys/net/route.c
> > >- add support in /sbin/route/route.c and alike
> >
> > How will this interoperate with ALTQ? Or is it intended as an alternati=
ve
> > to ALTQ? If so, what's the pros/cons?
>
> I don't think this will interoperate with ALTQ; they operate at different
> levels. Routing helps pick the interface to which a packet is enqueued,
> and ALTQ (as I understand it) determines which queued packet on a given
> interface is sent next.
>
> Also, source-based routing would be a big step for Strong ES support.

Strong ES ??? What is this (the only think I found in Google was
somehow connected with rfc1122, but I can't figure it out at first
sight) ???

> Take care,
>
> Bill
>
>
>


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