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Re: route broken in 2.0.7

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bernd Eckenfels)
Thu Jul 25 21:19:09 1996

From: ecki@inka.de (Bernd Eckenfels)
To: alan@cymru.net (Alan Cox)
Date: 	Thu, 25 Jul 1996 04:07:04 +0200 (MET DST)
Cc: ecki@inka.de, submit-linux-dev-net@ratatosk.yggdrasil.com
In-Reply-To: <199607241439.PAA26738@snowcrash.cymru.net> from "Alan Cox" at Jul 24, 96 03:39:21 pm

Hi,

> No can do. On a successful cache hit we dont even know what route entry
> was used.  People wanting per packet stats should use per packet accounting
> thats why its there

You can store a pointer to the rt-record with the cached data and do an
indirect update. Since the cached data is invalidated on table changes, this
shold be safe?

Greetings
Bernd
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