Re: neighbor/DIRECT selection based on kernel routing

"miguel a.l. paraz" writes:

>What do you think of optionally reading the kernel routing table and
>going DIRECT or thru a particular neighbor based on this?
>
>This is becoming useful here... we need to know hosts that are "close by"
>but are more distant in terms of hops as measured by ICMP. Also, we could
>make use of our router's knowledge... set up gated to peer BGP and/or OSPF
>with our core router and make use of its table.
>
>Duane, perhaps this is more feasible for your ASN-based system... instead
>of peering an external route server?

I started ASN support in squid-1.2, but haven't gotten too far yet.
The next step is to implement radix tree routines to hold the
network to AS data. Any takers?

Duane W.
Received on Tue Jul 29 2003 - 13:15:44 MDT