regular interface addresses" rule).
Protocols should NOT rely on router_id existence -- when router ID is not
available, the router_id variable is set to zero and protocols requiring
valid router ID should just refuse to start, reporting such error to the log.
the kernel routing table as opposed to modifying it which is approximately
the same on non-netlink systems, I've split the kernel routing table
routines to read and write parts. To be implemented later ;-)
protocol callbacks for route insertion and deletion from the central table.
RIP should maintain its own per-protocol queue of existing routes, scan it
periodically and call rte_discard() for routes that have timed out.
loop detection. This is needed since both RIP and OSPF handle multiple
neighbors and they need to redistribute routes learned from each neighbor
to the remaining ones.
protocols and don't send route/interface updates to them and when they come up,
we resend the whole route/interface tables privately.
Removed the "scan interface list after protocol start" work-around.
this happens, don't reject the whole interface, just mark it as index 0.
o Removed Pavel's comment about EFAULT and SIGSEGV. EFAULT is a valid return
code for cases where the buffer is too small.
o Commented out the smart interface list size logic temporarily as it seems
Linux 2.0 SIOCGIFCONF doesn't react to ifc_req==NULL sanely. Replaced it
by exponential stepping.
Linus Torvalds
Rip now uses main routing table properly: entries are stored directly
into main routing table and we are relying on core to call our's
compare. That unfortunately broke garbage collecting (and probably
many more things). It compiles.
For pure A/B/C class addresses it just returns the class netmask, for
subnets it tries to guess subnet mask. Please make sure the address
you pass to this function is really a valid host address (i.e., call
ipa_validate() first).