[Xorp-hackers] Fwd: [Xorp-users] how FEA interacts with underlying forwarding plane?

[Bruce Simpson]

sharda saiwan wrote:
>
> i want to run FEA and the forwarding plane on different machines (as 
> per my understanding its not possible in the current version), what 
> changes need to be done in FEA??

That's not possible; the FEA process is the one responsible for 
communicating with the forwarding plane -- decoupling the FEA and 
forwarding plane makes no sense in the XORP model, as the FEA's role is 
to encapsulate the forwarding plane in a way which the other XORP 
processes can communicate with.

I can't speak for the specifics of Click, though, I am under the 
impression it also has to run on the same node.

thanks,
BMS