Re: 3.0 wishlist Was: Overview of 2.2.x goals?
Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.CSIRO.AU)
Tue, 20 Jan 1998 08:07:39 +1100
Dan Hollis writes:
> On 19 Jan 1998, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > Dan Hollis <goemon@sasami.anime.net> writes:
> > > > I expect a better solution follows the form of equal cost multipathing +
> > > > more interesting load balancing algorithms.
> > > If you have been following the discussion, Alexey Kuznetsov declared this
> > > is impossible in linux. Even though Cisco can do it, Alexey declared Linux
> > > too mature for that sort of childish nonsense (multipath+balancing) :-)
> > I guess when you hack linux to turn off the routing cache on demand it
> > could probably work.
>
> Cisco can turn routing cache on/of on demand, per interface. Very
> flexible.
>
> > But such a hack is unlikely to ever get incorporated in the official
> > kernel sources.
>
> Why? Because the authors find such a concept distasteful? (For similar
> logic look at the recent raw/buffered device thread).
I do sometimes wonder how much Linux growth/development is stunted
because of personal biases...
Regards,
Richard....