On 8/22/07, Karanbir Singh mail-lists@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.