Re: 1 week until Summer of Code application time

["Simon 'corecode' Schubert" <corecode@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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