BGP routing table update time

[Ondrej Zajicek]

On Wed, Apr 17, 2019 at 03:14:10PM +0000, Tom Petty wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I’m trying to parse birdc output to process routing tables. While each
> route entry has a timestamp associated with it, I can’t find a convenient
> way of determining when the contents of a table were last changed, other
> than parsing the entire table and checking the timestamps of each route.
> 
> I’d like to avoid this, so is there a better way of determining when a
> route table was last updated that I’m missing? If not, would a patch
> adding a “time of last update” value to the table be of interest?

Hi

I don't think we keep this stat, but it makes sense to do that. We
already have some 'show table' patches (showing table-wide stats) outside
of master branch, so we should merge them and include timestamp in them.

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