On Thu, 2006-22-06 at 15:11 -0700, Caitlin Bestler wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > These subscriptions are an attempt to cede full control > of these issues back to one place, the kernel, and to > guarantee that an offload device can never think that > the route to to X is Y when the kernel says it is Z. > Or that it has a different PMTU, etc. > Ok, so it is the routing information then that you are syncing, correct? > I don't have any strong opinion on the best mechanism > for implementing these subscriptions, but having correct > consistent networking behaviour depend on a user-mode > relay strikes me as odd. > And why does it sound odd? You will need to think about one issue: Linux caches routing info - it is not just as simple as keeping track of the FIB and somehow correlating that to the ARP entries. cheers, jamal - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
