[CentOS] Re: Julian's patches

[Count Of Dracula]

On 8/22/07, Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org> wrote:
> Count Of Dracula wrote:
> > There are couple of excellent patches available from
> > http://www.ssi.bg/~ja for advance routing,load balancing,link-failover
> > etc.
> >
> > Any idea why these patches are not yet integrated into the upstream kernel?
>
> why dont you ask upstream :)
>
> - KB

Well.Here is a reply from Julian himself.

Maintainers don't like the idea to use output device index as routing
key. There was discussion on masquerading issues:

Here is a link for start of such discussion:

http://marc.info/?t=109389731400005&r=2&w=2

	Still, in response to these problems CONNMARK was pushed to 2.6:

http://marc.info/?l=netfilter-devel&m=107434321724522&w=2

	Also, the patches are not suitable for kernel because they
require scripts/daemons to ping gateways in multipath routes.