I personally don't see allot of value in making snmp support runtime -vs- compile time, but as a proof of concept I think it's fine for what it is.
I do see value in shared libraries though. Should we be thinking a bit bigger? Could we modify the protocols to all be shared libraries that could be loaded and then modify watchquagga( or some other daemon ) and vtysh to be able to auto start the daemons as shared libraries when the appropriate cli comes in? donald On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 1:59 PM, David Lamparter <equi...@opensourcerouting.org> wrote: > Hi all, > > > this series contains support for loading dynamic modules (DSOs) that contain > additional functionality. bgpd's SNMP support is the test target. > > THIS IS AN UNFINISHED VERSION TO INVITE FEEDBACK. > > In the "big picture", there are some very broad topics that are non-trivial, > first and foremost interaction of plugin's DEFUNs with config saving and > startup. In the current version, the patchset only supports loading DSOs on > the command line, i.e. before config load. That means all config works as > usual. However, if you remove a module from startup parameters, leftover > config statements may result in startup failure. Not sure if this is a real > problem... > > FWIW, loading modules from the config wouldn't be much of a problem, as long > as the plugin-loading statements get pushed all the way to the top of the > config. That way, they'd be loaded before their respective config blocks are > reached. > > Also, after unloading a module, config writes wouldn't include its config > anymore. The on-disk config file either has both the "load plugin" command > and the plugin's config (i.e. before-removal config), or would have neither > (as written out by a "write mem" after removing the module). > > That said, I haven't implemented unloading (or uninstalling hooks) yet :) > > > Cheers, > > -David > > > _______________________________________________ > Quagga-dev mailing list > Quagga-dev@lists.quagga.net > https://lists.quagga.net/mailman/listinfo/quagga-dev _______________________________________________ Quagga-dev mailing list Quagga-dev@lists.quagga.net https://lists.quagga.net/mailman/listinfo/quagga-dev
