Re: Communities

[Greg Maxwell <gmaxwell () martin fl us>]

On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Niels Bakker wrote:

> Except that Zebra currently does not have any provisions to be able to
> tell the forwarding engine it's running on (i.e. any Unix) a rule to the
> effect of "If packets originate from this peer [this interface] and are
> destined for this prefix, route them over that particular interface
> instead of the interface that would've been taken for all packets from
> all other prefixes."  Which is, in effect, what multiple FIBs mean in
> practice.

Yes it does. Sort of. Under Linux, You can tell each zebra instance to
populate a differnt routing table, and then use the ip command to set
route policys to direct inbound traffic to these tables based on whatever
you like (source address, ingress port, TOS bits, etc)