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Author SHA1 Message Date
Jan Maria Matejka
14375237f6 Terminology cleanup: The import_control hook is now called preexport.
Once upon a time, far far away, there were the old Bird developers
discussing what direction of route flow shall be called import and
export. They decided to say "import to protocol" and "export to table"
when speaking about a protocol. When speaking about a table, they
spoke about "importing to table" and "exporting to protocol".

The latter terminology was adopted in configuration, then also the
bird CLI in commit ea2ae6dd0 started to use it (in year 2009). Now
it's 2018 and the terminology is the latter. Import is from protocol to
table, export is from table to protocol. Anyway, there was still an
import_control hook which executed right before route export.

One thing is funny. There are two commits in April 1999 with just two
minutes between them. The older announces the final settlement
on config terminology, the newer uses the other definition. Let's see
their commit messages as the git-log tool shows them (the newer first):

    commit 9e0e485e50
    Author: Martin Mares <mj@ucw.cz>
    Date:   Mon Apr 5 20:17:59 1999 +0000

	Added some new protocol hooks (look at the comments for better explanation):

		make_tmp_attrs          Convert inline attributes to ea_list
		store_tmp_attrs         Convert ea_list to inline attributes
		import_control          Pre-import decisions

    commit 5056c559c4
    Author: Martin Mares <mj@ucw.cz>
    Date:   Mon Apr 5 20:15:31 1999 +0000

	Changed syntax of attaching filters to protocols to hopefully the final
	version:

		EXPORT <filter-spec>    for outbound routes (i.e., those announced
					by BIRD to the rest of the world).
		IMPORT <filter-spec>    for inbound routes (i.e., those imported
					by BIRD from the rest of the world).

	where <filter-spec> is one of:

		ALL                     pass all routes
		NONE                    drop all routes
		FILTER <name>           use named filter
		FILTER { <filter> }     use explicitly defined filter

	For all protocols, the default is IMPORT ALL, EXPORT NONE. This includes
	the kernel protocol, so that you need to add EXPORT ALL to get the previous
	configuration of kernel syncer (as usually, see doc/bird.conf.example for
	a bird.conf example :)).

Let's say RIP to this almost 19-years-old inconsistency. For now, if you
import a route, it is always from protocol to table. If you export a
route, it is always from table to protocol.

And they lived happily ever after.
2018-12-04 10:53:01 +01:00
Ondrej Zajicek (work)
a82f692e58 Nest: Trivial whitespace cleanup 2018-02-07 17:12:33 +01:00
Ondrej Zajicek (work)
af678af0d5 Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/master' into int-new 2016-05-12 18:03:23 +02:00
Pavel Tvrdik
8e433d6a52 Prog Doc: Complete several missing parameters 2016-05-12 15:49:44 +02:00
Jan Moskyto Matejka
4bdf1881dc Channelize: rt_notify arg conversion table -> channel 2016-04-07 10:08:23 +02:00
Ondrej Zajicek
c0adf7e9fc Better support for multitable protocols.
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.
2012-03-15 12:13:04 +01:00
Ondrej Zajicek
be4cd99a36 Implements deterministic MED handling.
Thanks to Alexander V. Chernikov for many suggestions.
2011-12-22 13:20:29 +01:00
Ondrej Zajicek
93e868c730 Implements Router Advertisement protocol. 2011-03-13 11:33:50 +01:00
Ondrej Zajicek
dca75fd7c2 Removes phantom protocol from the pipe design.
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).
2010-02-13 12:26:26 +01:00
Ondrej Zajicek
f98e291579 The pipe cleanup. 2009-06-01 14:07:13 +02:00
Ondrej Zajicek
23ac9e9a9e Changes pipes to transfer all routes between routing table, not just optimal routes. 2009-05-31 15:24:27 +02:00
Ondrej Zajicek
aebe06b40c Proper format functions for ORIGINATOR_ID, CLUSTER_LIST 2008-11-08 23:33:22 +01:00
Martin Mares
58f7d004fd Fixes to the progdoc. 2000-06-07 13:25:53 +00:00
Martin Mares
2e9b24211a Spelling fixes to progdoc. 2000-06-07 12:29:08 +00:00
Martin Mares
ddbcb927f2 Documented protocol hooks. 2000-06-02 17:24:11 +00:00