[Bulk] Re: [Bulk] Re: [Xorp-hackers] Some thoughts

[Kristian Larsson]

On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 09:52:54AM +0000, Mark Handley wrote:
> On 11/9/05, Kristian Larsson <kristian@juniks.net> wrote:
> 
> > ie, the "use-interface" part would be
> > automatically generated.
> > Is this really so hard to implement?
> 
> The problem is how do you automatically generate this?  The FEA could
> do this, but the rtrmgr has no inbuild knowledge of the FEA or of
> interfaces, so it can't generate this information.  Currently there's
> no way for the rtrmgr to dynamically update a running config from the
> running processes - the model is that the running config is what the
> user said it was.   The rtrmgr that would need to use this information
> to configure routing protocols, so it would need to know.
I'm not sure how to do this as I don't have an
indepth knowledge of XORP internal workings.
I just know that if I tell ifconfig:
ifconfig vlan add
It will create the next available vlan. So that
part can't be too hard.
Perhaps we don't need to store it in the
configuration? I just thought it would be a good
idea so that it would be persistent over reboots.

   Kristian.
> 
>  - Mark