On Mon, 25 Jun 2007 10:28:38 +0530
Varun Chandramohan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> According to the RFC 4292 (IP Forwarding Table MIB) there is a need for an 
> age entry for all the routes in the routing table. The entry in the RFC is 
> inetCidrRouteAge and oid is inetCidrRouteAge.1.10.
> Many snmp application require this age entry. So iam adding the age field in 
> the routing table and providing
> the interface for this value via /proc/net/route.
> 

Hi Varun

If you find a way to expose this information without breaking /proc/net/route, 
please consider that jiffies can wrap
every 49 days on 32 bit platforms.
So you probably want to use an other time infrastructure if you want 
meaningfull Age information.
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