rc.d/rc.subr support for multiple FIBs
Steve Polyack
would be quite beneficial to have the ability to build routing tables in
secondary FIBs as well as start certain applications in certain FIBs
from within rc.conf(5).
I've done some poking around and came across two PRs which implement
exactly what I'm looking for:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=132483
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=132476
My question is whether there are any plans to commit these into -CURRENT
and possibly MFC them to a future 8.x-RELEASE. Having multiple FIBs
available has been great so far, it goes hand and hand with Multi-IP
Jails. The only thing missing are native methods for constructing the
routing tables on boot (Yes, there is rc.local, but I don't want to go
there...).
Thanks,
Steve Polyack
Miroslav Lachman
It seems there is not interest by developers or not enough man power to
take it and commit.
I wrote about this PR in my e-mail in January:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-rc/2010-January/001816.html
But it was left without any reply and all mentioned PRs are untouched.
Miroslav Lachman
Brandon Gooch
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I too would love to see this integrated; I've hacked together my own
set of rc scripts (elegant in no way) to accomplish something similar
on my systems.
Also, general documentation regarding multiple FIBs (if that's what
they are to be referred to as) in the official docs would be cool --
I'm not knowledgeable enough to do it myself (although I'm a pretty
decent hand at "Documentation Testing" :)
-Brandon