[Xorp-hackers] ProtoUnit: protocol framework

Bruce Simpson bms at incunabulum.net
Mon Nov 9 09:04:04 PST 2009


Ben Greear wrote:
>>
>> [1] P.S. Ben: I'd be interested to know how you deal with the Finder 
>> namespace within your virtualization changes. Are you running a new 
>> set of XORP processes for each virtualized router, or sharing state 
>> within the existing processes -- or am I missing something?
>>   
> I run a new set of xorp (rtrmgr) on unique FINDER ports and with 
> unique routing table.

Thanks for clarifying this.

As you've probably seen, the Finder namespace is completely flat, and 
doesn't have any tuples or extension fields which would let us easily 
inject an instance field. However, implementing such is certainly 
possible. It's out of scope for now, though.

cheers,
BMS



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