[Xorp-users] BGP route-reflector question.

[Ben Greear]

Bruce M Simpson wrote:
> 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.

Yeah, it's not difficult to make the system calls..the rough part for
me is dealing with configuration since I don't know that code well.

Atanu:  If you're working on moving it to Fea, please let me know..perhaps
I can help.

Thanks,
Ben


> 
> cheers
> BMS


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