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1 | The directory ftp.inr.ac.ru:/ip-routing contains: |
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3 | - iproute.c - "professional" routing table maintenance utility. | |
4 | ||
5 | - rdisc.tar.gz - rdisc daemon, ported from Sun. | |
6 | STRONGLY RECOMMENDED FOR ALL HOSTS. | |
7 | ||
8 | - routing.tgz - original Mike McLagan's route by source patch. | |
9 | Currently it is obsolete. | |
10 | ||
11 | - gated.dif-ss<NEWEST>.gz - gated-R3_6Alpha_2 fixes. | |
12 | Look at README.gated | |
13 | ||
14 | - mrouted-3.8.dif.gz - mrouted-3.8 fixes. | |
15 | ||
16 | - rtmon.c - trivial debugging utility: reads and stores netlink. | |
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18 | ||
19 | NEWS for user. | |
20 | ||
21 | - Policy based routing. Routing decisions are made on the basis | |
22 | not only of destination address, but also source address, | |
23 | TOS and incoming interface. | |
24 | - Complete set of IP level control messages. | |
25 | Now Linux is the only OS in the world complying to RFC requirements. | |
26 | Great win 8) | |
27 | - New interface addressing paradigm. | |
28 | Assignment of address ranges to interface, | |
29 | multiple prefixes etc. etc. | |
30 | Do not bother, it is compatible with the old one. Moreover: | |
31 | - You don't need to do "route add aaa.bbb.ccc... eth0" anymore, | |
32 | it is done automatically. | |
33 | - "Abstract" UNIX sockets and security enhancements. | |
34 | This is necessary to use TIRPC and TLI emulation library. | |
35 | ||
36 | NEWS for hacker. | |
37 | ||
38 | - New destination cache. Flexible, robust and just beautiful. | |
39 | - Network stack is reordered, simplified, optimized, a lot of bugs fixed. | |
40 | (well, and new bugs were introduced, but I haven't seen them yet 8)) | |
41 | It is difficult to describe all the changes, look into source. | |
42 | ||
43 | If you see this file, then this patch works 8) | |
44 | ||
45 | Alexey Kuznetsov. | |
46 | kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru |