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authorMartin Mares <mj@ucw.cz>1999-03-01 17:51:29 +0000
committerMartin Mares <mj@ucw.cz>1999-03-01 17:51:29 +0000
commit12be9b8c1870ab8813d29350a2e2743f8e144642 (patch)
tree76e8f15265e823a31061a74c26200039dc533827
parent293e313ec91d4d23d6333e8cd852d425079cee68 (diff)
Pruned the TODO list.
-rw-r--r--TODO25
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/TODO b/TODO
index 4c75e6fa..c13bfa8e 100644
--- a/TODO
+++ b/TODO
@@ -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
~~~~~~~
- right usage of DBG vs. debug
@@ -31,7 +38,7 @@ Various ideas
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- 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
~~~~
- - 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?)