[Xorp-hackers] obtaining ospfV2 link state database

[Ben Greear]

Selçuk Cevher wrote:
> Hi All,
>  
> I want to obtain the entire link state database (_db) from ospfV2 at one 
> shot rather than getting LSAs individually.
>  
> I guess that I should add a new interface to ospfv2.xif to return the 
> database which is supposed to be a vector<Lsa::LsaRef>.
>  
> However, as far as I know, we can only use a few built-in types to 
> create .xif files.
>  
> To be able to create an .xif method which returns a pointer to a 
> vector<Lsa::LsaRef>, which xorp source files should I modify ?
>  
> Or is there any other way of doing this without creating a new return type ?

You could do some horrible hack like encode the struct with something
similar to uuencode and send it across as a string...

Not pretty, but has been known to work :)

Ben

>  
> Thanks,
> Selcuk
> 
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