[PATCH] protocol templates

Alexander V. Chernikov melifaro at ipfw.ru
Wed Nov 2 21:48:39 CET 2011


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Ivo Smits wrote:
> Op 2-11-2011 12:47, Ondrej Zajicek schreef:
>> protocol bgp rr_cl_ft by rr_client_bb {
>>    neighbor 10.4.7.2 as 65000;
>> }
>>
>> (Not being native english speaker i am not sure whether 'by'
>> is really the most apt keyword, any comments on that? Perhaps
>> 'from'?)
> Programming languages tend to use 'inherits' or a colon for inheritance.
> Multiple inheritance or implementation of multiple interfaces can be
> specified using a comma.
> 
> protocol bgp rr_cl_ft : rr_client_bb, rr_client_cc {
> 
> 
> The patch certainly looks useful. Quagga-like peer groups, but much more
> powerful! Good job, Alexander.

Actually, peer-group usually serves another important function (and it
is the main reason this patch appears): eliminating the need to make BGP
update / filtering for each peer in peer-group.

bird is very fast, but it can be much faster when acting as RR.

However, caching sent updates / grouping routing updates is not so
trivial to do..

> 
> -- 
> Ivo
> 

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