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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">I added a new process into xorp in which a RoutingTable object is created in the same way as ospf does. Then, the entries in the table are populated by this new process without any dependency on ospf.</font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">It seems that a RoutingTable object should take an ospf object as input in its constructor while being created. Hence, I just created an ospf object in the new process's main function as follows which exists only to allow the creation of the RoutingTable object (ospf object is not used for anything else including route calculation):</font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>//EventLoop fakeEventloop;</font></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>string feaname = "fea";</font></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>XrlStdRouter xrl_router(eventloop, "ospfv2");</font></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>XrlIO<IPv4> io(eventloop, xrl_router, feaname, ribname);</font></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Ospf<IPv4> ospf(OspfTypes::V2, eventloop, &io);</font></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">The variable eventloop is the main event loop of the new process. After creating an ospf object this way which is later on inputted to the constructor of my own RoutingTable object, I observed that the new process successfully computes the routes. However, I am not sure that using the primary event loop of the new process for the purpose of creating an useless ospf object has some side-effects even though I did not observe any.</font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">First, I had created a "fake" event loop before as can be seen from commented out line above, but it gave me some timer errors. Hence, I began to use the primary event loop of the new process, which worked fine.</font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Does anyone have an idea creation of an ospf object this way has any side-effects ?</font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Thanks,</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Selcuk</font></p>