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Re: Any interest in updating the routing engine?


From: Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai <asmodai@xxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 07:59:54 +0200

-On [20031008 05:32], Matthew Dillon (dillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
>    Third, I think that if we were to do this sort of thing we really would
>    want to completely rewrite the BSD route table radix tree code.  The
>    existing code is a huge mess and does not suit an MP environment all that
>    well.

There's a ton of papers of new routing code and ways to do
routing/networking which never got applied much in the BSD world.  It
has always been one of my dreams to work on that stuff, but I got
distracted by toolchains.

I'll put out a list of interesting papers for the ones eager to work on
this.

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