ECMP/multipath support

Joakim Tjernlund joakim.tjernlund at transmode.se
Tue Dec 21 01:22:48 CET 2010


Ondrej Zajicek <santiago at crfreenet.org> wrote on 2010/12/21 01:13:10:
>
> On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 12:35:17AM +0100, Joakim Tjernlund wrote:
> > I meant a #define OSPF_IT_MPTP xx so one knows
> > if it is a ptmp and ptp link.
>
> It would need more work to really support PTMP, as there
> are places where it is assumed that neighbor list for
> PTP iface contains at most one entry.
>
> > For ptp links you don't have to
> > scan the neighbour list in calc_next_hop
>
> For PTP iface, the list contains at most one entry (so the scan is fast
> :-) ) and you have to examine it anyways to know neighbor's IP address.

Yes, it is a small improvement I guess and you would find the remote
IP address, if there is one, by following the ifa ptr.

 Jocke




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