[6bone] source-based routing

Pim van Pelt pim@ipng.nl
Mon, 28 Oct 2002 23:08:06 +0100


On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 10:12:53PM +0100, Andree Toonk wrote:
| Hi everyone,
| 
| I´ve got 2 connections to the 6bone (2 ipv6 in ipv4 tunnels).
| This host acts like a router for other ipv6 hosts in my network.
| 
| I would like to implement source-based routing on this host.
| So that the correct packets go to the correct tunnel.
| This router-host is a linux (debian) system, with kernel 2.4.18.
| Is there software available which can perform this?
No.

| In Ipv4 I could use the iproute2 package, but I´m not sure if this 
| supports source-based routing in ipv6.
| Are there alternative software packages for source-based routing in Linux? 
No.

(and I don't know any unix OS that implements IPv6 source based (or other 
policy based) routing). Does anyone else have a clue here ?

My closest bet would be pf in the OpenBSD-current scene.

groet,
Pim
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