When a protocol went down, all its routes were flushed in one step, that
may block BIRD for too much time. The patch fixes that by limiting
maximum number of routes flushed in one step.
The nest-protocol interaction is changed to better handle multitable
protocols. Multitable protocols now declare that by 'multitable' field,
which tells nest that a protocol handles things related to proto-rtable
interaction (table locking, announce hook adding, reconfiguration of
filters) itself.
Filters and stats are moved to announce hooks, a protocol could have
different filters and stats to different tables.
The patch is based on one from Alexander V. Chernikov, thanks.
Hostcache is a structure for monitoring changes in a routing table that
is used for routes with dynamic/recursive next hops. This is needed for
proper iBGP next hop handling.
- BSD kernel syncer is now self-conscious and can learn alien routes
- important bugfix in BSD kernel syncer (crash after protocol restart)
- many minor changes and bugfixes in kernel syncers and neighbor cache
- direct protocol does not generate host and link local routes
- min_scope check is removed, all routes have SCOPE_UNIVERSE by default
- also fixes some remaining compiler warnings
It seems that by adding one pipe-specific exception to route
announcement code and by adding one argument to rt_notify() callback i
could completely eliminate the need for the phantom protocol instance
and therefore make the code more straightforward. It will also fix some
minor bugs (like ignoring debug flag changes from the command line).
When uncofiguring the pipe and the peer table, the peer table was
unlocked when pipe protocol state changed to down/flushing and not to
down/hungry. This leads to the removal of the peer table before
the routes from the pipe were flushed.
The fix leads to adding some pipe-specific hacks to the nest,
but this seems inevitable.
contains all attributes, not just the temporary ones. This avoids having
to merge the lists inside protocols or doing searches on both of them.
Also, do filtering of routes properly. (I'd like to avoid it, but it's
needed at least in the krt protocol.)
show the routing table as exported to the protocol given resp. as returned
from its import control hook.
To get handling of filtered extended attributes right (even in the old
`show route where <filter>' command), the get_route_info hook gets an
attribute list and all protocol specific rte attributes are contained
there as temporary ones. Updated RIP to do that.
Added ea_append() which joins two ea_list's.
of calling the protocols manually.
Implemented printing of dynamic attributes in `show route all'.
Each protocol can now register its own attribute class (protocol->attr_class,
set to EAP_xxx) and also a callback for naming and formatting of attributes.
The callback can return one of the following results:
GA_UNKNOWN Attribute not recognized.
GA_NAME Attribute name recognized and put to the buffer,
generic code should format the value.
GA_FULL Both attribute name and value put to the buffer.
Please update protocols generating dynamic attributes to provide
the attr_class and formatting hook.
in configuration files and commands for manipulating them.
Current debug message policy:
o D_STATES, D_ROUTES and D_FILTERS are handled in generic code.
o Other debug flags should be handled in the protocols and whenever
the flag is set, the corresponding messages should be printed
using calls to log(L_TRACE, ...), each message prefixed with
the name of the protocol instance. These messages should cover
the whole normal operation of the protocol and should be useful
for an administrator trying to understand what does the protocol
behave on his network or who is attempting to diagnose network
problems. If your messages don't fit to the categories I've defined,
feel free to add your own ones (by adding them to protocol.h
and on two places in nest/config.Y), but please try to keep the
categories as general as possible (i.e., not tied to your protocol).
o Internal debug messages not interesting even to an experienced
user should be printed by calling DBG() which is either void or
a call to debug() depending on setting of the LOCAL_DEBUG symbol
at the top of your source.
o Dump functions (proto->dump etc.) should call debug() to print
their messages.
o If you are doing any internal consistency checks, use ASSERT
or bug().
o Nobody shall ever call printf() or any other stdio functions.
Also please try to log any protocol errors you encounter and tag them
with the appropriate message category (usually L_REMOTE or L_AUTH). Always
carefully check contents of any message field you receive and verify all
IP addresses you work with (by calling ipa_classify() or by using the
neighbour cache if you want to check direct connectedness as well).
used for automatic generation of instance names.
protocol->name is the official name
protocol->template is the name template (usually "name%d"),
should be all lowercase.
Updated all protocols to define the templates, checked that their configuration
grammar includes proto_name which generates the name and interns it in the
symbol table.
o Make proto_config->table always point to the right
table even if it should be the default one.
o When shutting down, kill protocol in reverse order
of their priority.
o When stopping a protocol down, disconnect it from
routing tables immediately instead of waiting
for the delayed protocol flush event.
Also added a protocol instance counter (used by KRT code
in very magic ways).
