[Xorp-hackers] RFC: ServiceStatus - status diagram

Pierre Lepropre pierre.lepropre at student.ulg.ac.be
Fri Mar 18 12:08:26 PDT 2011


Hello Atanu,

Thank you for your answer. I actually used the static_routes module as
my main source of inspiration. So I guess that's probably good news !

Thanks,

Pierre.

On Fri, 2011-03-18 at 10:17 -0700, Atanu Ghosh wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> The static route module was intended to be the example routing module,
> a starting point for writing a new routing module.  Hence it attempts
> to demonstrate all the interfaces that a routing module should use.
> 
>        Atanu.
> 
> On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 11:03 AM, Ben Greear <greearb at candelatech.com> wrote:
> > 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
> >
> > --
> > Ben Greear <greearb at candelatech.com>
> > Candela Technologies Inc  http://www.candelatech.com
> >
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