Ville Nuorvala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> When locating routes for redirects only the main table is >> searched for now. Since policy rules will not be reversible >> it is unclear whether it makes sense to change this. > > This is a good point. You are absolutely correct about the policy rules. > > IIRC, I initially looked through all the tables, but skipped this > behavior when I rewrote the code for 2.6.11. Currently I'm once again > in favor of looping through them all. This is IMO at least closer to the > spirit of RFC 2461 section 8.3. where a host SHOULD update its > destination cache upon receiving a redirect. If we don't look through > all tables, we can't ensure this happens.
Without a route cache, I think our only choice is to search through all tables. The same thing applies to PMTU updates as well. Cheers, -- Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/ Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt - 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
