netdev - Re: [PATCH] Age Entry For IPv4 Route Table

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Date:	Mon, 25 Jun 2007 14:14:51 +0900 (JST)
From:	YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明 
	<yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>
To:	varunc@...ux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, sri@...ibm.com, dlstevens@...ibm.com,
	varuncha@...ibm.com, yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Age Entry For IPv4 Route Table

In article <20070625102838.9d1fee20.varunc@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> (at Mon, 25 Jun 2007 10:28:38 +0530), Varun Chandramohan <varunc@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> says:

> According to the RFC 4292 (IP Forwarding Table MIB) there is a need for an age entry for all the routes in the routing table. The entry in the RFC is inetCidrRouteAge and oid is inetCidrRouteAge.1.10.
> Many snmp application require this age entry. So iam adding the age field in the routing table and providing
> the interface for this value via /proc/net/route.

I'm not in favor of adding new field(s) to /proc/net/route.

--yoshfuji
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