On Mit, 2007-10-10 at 18:16 +0200, John Hay wrote:
[...]
> I guess it all depends where you come from. :-) Maybe your case is

Probably. Or I'm just seeing this too much from my home users
perspective.
Or I'm just ignorant enough;-)

> clear cut, but in a more generic "routing" problem with more than
> one routing daemon running, you will still need a way to set the
> metric/weight a daemon use for its routes... or even different
> metrics depending on the route. For instance I might want to say
> the default route from daemon xyz needs to have the best metric
> while for the routes x.y/16 routes from daemon yyy should be the
> most prefered. Or even, I never want to learn the default route
> from xxx.
>
> And yes I do come from a background of haveing run gated/zebra/quagga
> with multiple protocols simultaneously and using the weight
> adjustments filtering capabilities. :-) I would love it if I could

For the above, you need some configuration support (in the various
routing
daemons) to filter that.

> tell olsr not to learn certain routes. :-)

Well, send a patch;-)

	Bernd
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