Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 25 Mar 2000 11:54:38 -0500 (EST) | From | Gregory Maxwell <> | Subject | Re: Source Routing |
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It's there, go get iproute2 (/sbin/ip) if you don't already have it.
Then read the ip-cref RULE section.
On Sat, 25 Mar 2000, Brad Whitehead wrote:
> Hi, > > What is the state of support for source routing in linux? > > My situation is this: I have two available routes out to the internet. The > branch occurs after several hops. eg. Packets travel the same route for > hops 1, 2 and 3, but then can be routed either through router 4 or 5. I > dont have permission (access) to change the routing tables on any of these > routers. I would like to be able to choose between router 4 or 5 > on-the-fly. eg. if router 4 goes down, then I would like to be able to > switch the route to use router 5. The only way I could think of doing this > is a loose source-route to router 5. I looked for several hours trying to > find out how this could be done, with no luck, is this not supported in > linux yet? > > The reason I'm posting this to the kernel dev list is; if source routing is > simply not supported yet, I will write support for it, but want to make > sure I'm not just duplicating someone elses work. I have done some network > programming before, but never anything with the linux kernel. Is support > for source routing something that should be coded into the kernel or a > user-space app? > > I would like to see implementation of this be as flexible as possible, so > others can use it too :) A simple user-space app to pass requests to > modify a source-routing table is the simplest solution I have thought of. > Should the kernel side be an independant module? Or should source-route > support be a direct part of ipv4? > > If anyone has any further ideas (or hints!) please let me know > > Thanks, > > Brad. > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >
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