The directory ftp.inr.ac.ru:/ip-routing contains: - iproute.c - "professional" routing table maintainance utility. - rdisc.tar.gz - rdisc daemon, ported from Sun. STRONGLY RECOMMENDED FOR ALL HOSTS. - routing.tgz - original Mike McLagan's route by source patch. Currently it is obsolete. - gated.dif-ss.gz - gated-R3_6Alpha_2 fixes. Look at README.gated - mrouted-3.8.dif.gz - mrouted-3.8 fixes. - rtmon.c - trivial debugging utility: reads and stores netlink. NEWS for user. - Policy based routing. Routing decisions are made on the basis not only of destination address, but also source address, TOS and incoming interface. - Complete set of IP level control messages. Now Linux is the only OS in the world complying to RFC requirements. Great win 8) - New interface addressing paradigm. Assignment of address ranges to interface, multiple prefixes etc. etc. Do not bother, it is compatible with the old one. Moreover: - You don't need to do "route add aaa.bbb.ccc... eth0" anymore, it is done automatically. - "Abstract" UNIX sockets and security enhancements. This is necessary to use TIRPC and TLI emulation library. NEWS for hacker. - New destination cache. Flexible, robust and just beautiful. - Network stack is reordered, simplified, optimized, a lot of bugs fixed. (well, and new bugs were introduced, but I haven't seen them yet 8)) It is difficult to describe all the changes, look into source. If you see this file, then this patch works 8) Alexey Kuznetsov. kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru