1 week until Summer of Code application time

Thu Mar 5 07:30:09 PST 2009

Justin C. Sherrill wrote:
On Thu, March 5, 2009 1:36 am, Archimedes Gaviola wrote:
Hi Justin,

Just want to suggest and share this idea (without mentoring) about
virtual routing based on this link here
http://www.ipinfusion.com/pdf/VirtualRouting_app-note_3rev0302.pdf.
Although I'm not so sure if this is already implemented in the
project, so just correct me if I'm wrong. Basically, virtual routing
is a concept of emulating multiple instances of routing tables (RIB
and FIB) intended for running multi-independent network services.
This sounds like work separating out the routing table between jails, or
perhaps vkernels.  I may be naive, however.  Write this out on:
http://www.dragonflybsd.org/gsoc2009/ as a potential project; there
doesn't have to be a mentor attached to an idea.  (not yet, anyway.)
I don't really see the benefit in this.  Either you combine forwarding tables into one table, or you... well, that's actually it.  I guess the larger part is more on a control plane level than on a data plane level, so that would more be a xorp project, I guess.  I might also miss the point completely.

cheers
 simon