[Xorp-users] BGP route-reflector question.

Bruce M Simpson bms at incunabulum.net
Thu Oct 9 16:14:39 PDT 2008


Ben Greear wrote:
> ...
> Now, it seems that bgp might not be using fea, and if so, then I'm
> going to need to hack on it's socket code to bind to a specific
> device (SO_BINDTODEVICE) for my application.
>   

I believe Atanu's been working on the rewrite of BGP to use the FEA for 
sockets but I could be wrong.

There are XRLs which wrap the wholly Linux specific SO_BINDTODEVICE 
option in the FEA. They are used by OLSR. There are also low-level 
libcomm functions which wrap it.

cheers
BMS



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