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Re: Routing by source
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike McLagan)
Wed Jun 26 16:27:59 1996
To: dennis@etinc.com (Dennis)
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 1996 12:42:23 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Mike McLagan" <mmclagan@invlogic.com>
Cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <199606251712.NAA19472@etinc.com> from "Dennis" at Jun 25, 96 01:12:09 pm
You (Dennis) wrote
> Thats why we do source routing in the virtual interface.Its also nice for DLCI
> load-balancing.
DLCI load balancing is available by use of the EQL driver and attaching DLCI
devices to it. Rather than having a completely seperate and unique layer
of code involved in the DLCI, it acts as a simple encapsulator for RFC 1490.
(drivers/net/dlci.c is the Linux module that implements hardware independant
layer for Frame Relay, in case you haven't seen it yet).
The creation of a routing by source addin provides the functionality to everyone
who uses Linux, rather than limiting it to those using your frame relay card.
And from the response I've gotten to putting it out as a patch available to
everyone, there's lots of people who want it for non FR situations.
Mike was here...
