[Babel-users] Source-specific routes [was: atomic updates...]

Leen Besselink leen at consolejunkie.net
Sun May 5 22:00:51 UTC 2013


On Sun, May 05, 2013 at 10:05:52PM +0200, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote:
> > It's not ECMP for ipv6 I'm looking to see solved for multiple routing
> > protocols, but the multiple ipv6 prefixes/multiple exits source
> > routing problem.
> 
> As you well know, Dave, we've been working on that for the last
> fortnight or so.
> 
> We've run into a limitation of the kernel:
> 
>   http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg235316.html
> 
> Unfortunately, I've had no reply to my question:
> 
>   http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg235346.html
> 
> So it looks like we're going to have to dynamically generate rule
> table entries... sigh.
> 

Maybe you should talk to the people at the Multipath-TCP project, they
have a similar problem. They also need to create source routing rules.

Obviously they only have a few rules.

> > The homenet folk demonstrated this form of ipv6 multihoming working
> > (using a version of OSPF and BIRD, I believe) at the last ietf.
> 
> That is interesting.  Would you happen to know how they're interfacing
> with the kernel?  Or perhaps have a link to their code?
> 
> -- Juliusz
> 
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