25 Nov
2011
25 Nov
'11
1:56 p.m.
On 2011/11/23 16:27, Ondrej Zajicek wrote:
On BSD, kernel scan is implemented by requesting a big buffer and copying several tens of MB of route data from kernel to BIRD. I am not an expert on BSD, but perhaps there may be some kernel problem on some BSD version?
I don't know about FreeBSD but dumping the kernel route table can certainly be quite expensive on OpenBSD. It doesn't take all that long but locking means that interactive response can be quite poor while it happens.