Commit 12be9b8c authored by Martin Mares's avatar Martin Mares
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Pruned the TODO list.

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@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ Core
- counters (according to SNMP MIB?)
- better memory allocators
- default preferences of protocols: prefer BGP over OSPF/RIP external routes?
- secondary addresses -> subinterfaces
- secondary addresses -> subinterfaces or ignore

- static: check validity of route destination?

@@ -17,6 +17,13 @@ Core

- adding of route: check whether all bits not covered by masklen are zero

- incoming packets: interface the packet came from? (esp. for multicasts)
- broadcast/multicast echoing suppresion
- we need ifindex at least for PtP links

- kernel: RTM_F_NOTIFY seems to be unimplemented
- kernel: RTM_DELROUTE not announced for device routes

Cleanup
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- right usage of DBG vs. debug
@@ -31,7 +38,7 @@ Various ideas
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- real multipath (doesn't seem to be simple at all :()
- fake multipath (even less simple)
- route recalculation timing and flap dampening
- route recalculation timing and flap dampening [see RFC2439 for algorithms]
- aggregate engine: standard route aggregation and summarization
- aggregate engine: injection of manually configured pseudo-static routes
- generate default route if any working BGP connection exists (aggregate engine again?)
@@ -45,19 +52,18 @@ RIP
	- Route Tag
	- limit routing table xfer (frequency, only to neighbors)
	- multicast on/off (per interface)
	- remember routes for all neighbors?

OSPF
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	- point-to-point interface with address: advertise as stub network
	- static routes: stub networks?
	- modes: PtP, PtP-unnumbered, Broadcast, NBMA, point-to-multipoint
	- importing of device routes for networks where we don't run OSPF
	- tie breaking for equal type 2 ext metrics by using internal (type 1) metric
	- SPF tree recalc timing (per-area timers?)
	- aggregation: specify network list for each area
	- check incoming packets using neighbor cache
	- stub area: either no external routes or only default route
	- RFC2328 appendix E: Use a better algorithm
	- automatic generation of external route tags (RFC1403)
	- RFC1587 NSSA areas
	- RFC2370 opaque LSA's
	- RFC1793 Demand Circuit Support ??
	- respect interface MTU and try not to create larger packets unless unavoidable


BGP
@@ -71,7 +77,6 @@ BGP
	- attributes must be sorted!
	- re-export of NEXT_HOP attribute
	- BGP session over currently down interface
	- route flap dampening?
	- LOCAL_PREF attribute
	- error notification received -> log error
	- set TTL to 1 (configurable?)