Re: route cacheing for gif(4) should be optional

From: Gleb Smirnoff (glebius_at_freebsd.org)
Date: 11/26/04

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    Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2004 12:13:16 +0300
To: James <haesu@towardex.com>

    On Thu, Nov 25, 2004 at 09:55:10PM -0500, James wrote:
    J> On Thu, Nov 25, 2004 at 05:06:41PM +0300, Gleb Smirnoff wrote:
    J> > Back to this problem:
    J> >
    J> > http://freebsd.rambler.ru/bsdmail/freebsd-net_2004/msg01305.html
    J> >
    J> > I've found two more people who dislike this feature of gif(4).
    J> > So I'd like to make it optional.
    J> >
    J> > We already have LINK2 flag removing sourceroute filter from gif(4),
    J> > which is commonly used in asymmetrically routed networks. I suggest
    J> > to use this flag also for disabling route cacheing, since asymmetricity
    J> > often appears in dynamically routed networks, and if one runs dynamic
    J> > routing, he probably wants to remove route cacheing, too.
    J>
    J> I'd think we should create a separate option for removing the route
    J> cache. Sometimes, certain people want to use the tunnel at the highest
    J> maximum performance possible with both sourceroute filter disabled
    J> and tunneling routes allocated at their creation time. Perhaps link3 is a
    J> good place for this option?

    There is no LINK3 flag :)

    However, gif(4) does not use LINK0 flag. It was used in past. We can utilize
    it now. Any objections? 

    -- 
Totus tuus, Glebius.
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