Hi, For such a task you need some API between the bird and the receiver anyway. But in some sence there are already multiple options for such API - the routing protocols themselves. For example you can use BGP as a transport of routes between applications.
On Mon, Sep 6, 2021 at 8:05 AM Senthil Kumar Nagappan <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Ondrej, > > This was the first thread on this topic, and the use case for that was to use > with DPDK application in the user space. > > https://bird.network.cz/pipermail/bird-users/2018-December/012973.html > > Our use case is, we already have a protocol stack other than bird that > updates routed(RTM route table manager) which in turn updates the kernel. Now > we wanted the bird also to update the routed instead of kernel. > > Thanks and Regards, > Senthil > > > On Monday, September 6, 2021, 06:47:54 AM GMT+5:30, Ondrej Zajicek > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Sun, Sep 05, 2021 at 05:08:09PM -0400, Cody Doucette wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I was able to achieve this with a few small custom changes to bird: > > > > https://github.com/cjdoucette/bird/commits/gatekeeper > > > > I don’t know if this ability has been added to the bird mainline since I > > did this. > > Hi > > > That is an interesting feature. What is a use case for it? Some other > tool to communicate with? > > -- > Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo > > Ondrej 'Santiago' Zajicek (email: [email protected]) > OpenPGP encrypted e-mails preferred (KeyID 0x11DEADC3, wwwkeys.pgp.net) > "To err is human -- to blame it on a computer is even more so." >
