On Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 03:29:25PM -0400, Tim Mattox wrote:

I looked into fastroute about a year ago as well.  It's been used in
some clusters
AFAIK, but I'm not sure if it's still being actively used.  I was
considering trying to
use it myself in some cluster FNN research work I'm doing.  But that's probably
still 6 months away if I get to it.  Since I'd be having to patch
other things anyway,
I have no qualms with it going away from mainline...  Especially with GigE so
cheap today, and legacy PCI bandwidths so low, it's not particularly economical
today to route through nodes in an HPC cluster that uses TCP/IP interconnect.

I don't know if the webserver/load balancing community would mind it going
away though.

Well my main point is that the code _doesn't do anything_.

It is dead code, as-is, in the kernel.  It would require patches to
actually work at all.

It is impossible that fastrouting is being actively used, without patches.

	Jeff