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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:#222222;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:FR">Hi everyone,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:#222222;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:FR"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:#222222;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:FR">First of all, thanks a lot for BIRD !<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:#222222;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:FR"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:#222222;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:FR">I have some questions about the dynamicity of BIRD wiht BGP.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:#222222;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:FR">In a scenario where routes needs to be updated accondingly depending on some external informations, I find out that those informations would
need to be written into the BIRD configuration file.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:#222222;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:FR"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:#222222;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:FR">As an example, if we need to add a bgp community based on the peer address (already known), we would need something like that :<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:#222222;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:FR"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:#222222;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:FR">```bird<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:#222222;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:FR">function get_community_from_peer_address(ip addr) -> pair {<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:#222222;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:FR"> case addr {<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:#222222;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:FR"> <addr1> : (1,1) ;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:#222222;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:FR"> <addr2> : (245, 12434) ;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:#222222;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:FR"> …<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:#222222;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:FR"> else : (0, 0) ;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:#222222;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:FR"> }<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:#222222;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:FR">}<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:#222222;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:FR">```<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:#222222;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:FR"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:#222222;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:FR">And we could update that function if needed in the future but the configuration will need to be parsed each time.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:#222222;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:FR">If the rate of update is high, it can become a bootleneck.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:#222222;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:FR"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:#222222;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:FR">So I would like to know if I am going the right direction doing that way ?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:#222222;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:FR">Is there a plan for a direct API to BIRD internals instead of passing a configuration file ?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:#222222;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:FR"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:#222222;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:FR">Thanks in advance for your answer,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:#222222;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:FR">Maxime Peim<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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