Sync with userspace instead of kernel

[Alexander Zubkov]

Hi,

For such a task you need some API between the bird and the receiver
anyway. But in some sence there are already multiple options for such
API - the routing protocols themselves. For example you can use BGP as
a transport of routes between applications.

On Mon, Sep 6, 2021 at 8:05 AM Senthil Kumar Nagappan
<sknagappan at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> Hi Ondrej,
>
> This was the first thread on this topic, and the use case for that was to use with DPDK application in the user space.
>
> https://bird.network.cz/pipermail/bird-users/2018-December/012973.html
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> Our use case is, we already have a protocol stack other than bird that updates routed(RTM route table manager) which in turn updates the kernel. Now we wanted the bird also to update the routed instead of kernel.
>
> Thanks and Regards,
> Senthil
>
>
> On Monday, September 6, 2021, 06:47:54 AM GMT+5:30, Ondrej Zajicek <santiago at crfreenet.org> wrote:
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> On Sun, Sep 05, 2021 at 05:08:09PM -0400, Cody Doucette wrote:
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> > Hi,
> >
> > I was able to achieve this with a few small custom changes to bird:
> >
> > https://github.com/cjdoucette/bird/commits/gatekeeper
> >
> > I don’t know if this ability has been added to the bird mainline since I
> > did this.
>
> Hi
>
>
> That is an interesting feature. What is a use case for it? Some other
> tool to communicate with?
>
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> Ondrej 'Santiago' Zajicek (email: santiago at crfreenet.org)
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