On Wed, 2006-03-15 at 13:33 -0300, Andreas Hasenack wrote: > > I never used those patches. For me, not being included in the mainstream > kernel for all those years has to mean something is broken somewhere. Well at the time, back in my 2.2/2.4 years. It was lacking or broken support in the kernel. Sure one could use a multipath gateways but for many reason it just flat out would not work. With Julian's patches and nat it resolved those problems. Since it's addressing something most people using Linux will never attempt. Along with many other reasons they have never been included. Like static routes. Ever made a entry in a routing table, to have it disappear when the interface goes down. Only appearing again when the interface is up, if that routing table is re-created. The static patch resolves that. I do not believe the patches would cause harm to introduce into the kernel. But there has been reasons for keeping it out. Not always good or technical ones. I recall discussing it with Julian. I believe Julian has attempted many times to get them into the main stream kernel. In fact after looking into them, I think I might need them to resolve some issues I am having now. Even though I am not using multipath gateway, or dead gateway detection. Just multiple ISP's multiple networks, routed to different ISP's. Like my arp issues, yet to be mentioned. -- Sincerely, William L. Thomson Jr. Obsidian-Studios, Inc. http://www.obsidian-studios.com _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list LARTC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.ds9a.nl/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lartc
