ECMP/multipath support

[Andrew Lemin]

Ah ok I understand.
At least this is a good thing anyway as all the other protocols are decoupled from the core bird routing table, and so doing this work should only lead to a more stable system overall?


PS; I agree that a community area for guides/manuals/configurations is a great idea :)



-----Original Message-----
From: Ondrej Zajicek [mailto:santiago at crfreenet.org]
Sent: 15 December 2010 23:02
To: Andrew Lemin
Cc: Vincent Bernat; bird-users at trubka.network.cz
Subject: Re: ECMP/multipath support

On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 11:53:50AM +0000, Andrew Lemin wrote:
> Wow, great news.
> What has been the challenge with adding ECMP support in the RIP protocol?

The problem is that RIP implementation currently maintains most of its state using the core routing table and it is closely tied with its routes in that table. Adding multipath routes would require some decoupling.

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