Re: Source Routing

From: Ruslan Ermilov (ru_at_FreeBSD.org)
Date: 12/30/03

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    Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2003 10:13:08 +0200
To: Bruce M Simpson <bms@spc.org>

    On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 01:25:25AM +0000, Bruce M Simpson wrote:
    > On Sun, Dec 28, 2003 at 02:15:11PM -0800, afshin wrote:
    > > Is any source routing facility available in FreeBSD ?
    >
    > I think you mean policy routing. It is on the wishlist for 5.3.
    >
    What is missing in ipfw(8) and its ``fwd'' option from being a
    successful implementation of policy routing?

    - by using the match probability feature, you can implement
      the equal-access routing;

    - by checking the source IP adress, you can implement
      the source-sensitive routing;

    - by checking the IP TOS field, you can implement the
      quality-of-service routing;

    - etc.

    Cheers, 

    -- 
Ruslan Ermilov
FreeBSD committer
ru@FreeBSD.org

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