Re: do we support non contiguous netmasks ?
From: Anders Lowinger (anders.lowinger_at_packetfront.com)
Date: 04/05/04
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Date: Mon, 05 Apr 2004 11:44:47 +0200 To: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@icir.org>
Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> Hi,
> i was wondering if anyone knows what kind of support we have
> in FreeBSD networking code, for non contiguous netmasks.
> While it is trivial to support them for interface addresses,
> managing them in the routing table is probably far from trivial
> and I believe also mostly useless... and anyways, i have no
> idea how our kernel code deals with them
Not sure why you wonder? Do you need it?
If we implement a mtrie for faster routing-lookups,
non-contiguous masks need to go.
Not even Cisco implements anything else than contiguous masks,
and I have a very hard time to understand why they are needed.
/Anders
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