[Xorp-hackers] RFC: ServiceStatus - status diagram

[Ben Greear]

On 03/17/2011 10:29 AM, Pierre Lepropre wrote:
> Hello Ben,
>
>>>
>>> I've added a state diagram description of ServiceStatus
>>> (/libxorp/service.hh) on the wiki
>>> ( http://xorp.run.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/latex2wiki/xorp_libxorp_overview?&#servicehh )
>>>
>>> As already reported in bug reports, the specifications are partially
>>> inconsistent and incomplete. So, I had to somewhat reverse-engineer the
>>> expected behavior with common sense and by taking a look at different
>>> built-in XORP modules that use that.
>>>
>>> Could somebody familiar with it take a quick look and give me his
>>> insight ?
>>
>> Likely you know more about this than anyone else at this point.
>>
>> It certainly looks impressive :)
>
> Oups... I didn't realize :) ! Thanks for your input.
>
> That's strange because that stuff is used even in the most basic
> static_routes module...  If anybody else wants to speak his mind, feel
> free to do so !

Most xorp core code was written around 2003-2006 it seems (check out the truly ancient
0.1 release I found on some old xorp mirrors!)  The folks that wrote it
are busy with other things, not on the list at all, or have forgotten,
I think :)

http://www.xorp.org/releases/old/

Thanks,
Ben

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