| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | The directory ftp.inr.ac.ru:/ip-routing contains: |
| 2 | |
| 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| 9 | Currently it is obsolete.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. |
| 17 | |
| 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 |