Hello! Yes, we definitely want to support it, yet last time when we were talking about it, it was still unstable. It is good news that it really has come in, we'll study it and most likely also implement it.
Thank you for pointing this out. Maria On September 22, 2020 11:08:02 PM GMT+02:00, "Alexander V. Chernikov" <melif...@ipfw.ru> wrote: >Hi folks, > >Cumulus people implemented nexthop objects/nexthop groups [1] in Linux >kernel some time ago. These changes allow for more efficient >communications between kernel and userspace w/ wide multipath & large >amount of routes. > >Initial support landed [2] in FRR in 2019 and has notably improved >since then. >Are there any plans to support this functionality in bird? > > >[1]: >https://linuxplumbersconf.org/event/4/contributions/434/attachments/251/436/nexthop-objects-talk.pdf >[2]: >https://github.com/FRRouting/frr/commit/50d8965075cf59744dde685ae01400d9b7ee08a2#diff-33257ed1c568e6554134d48dc13332d1 > >/Alexander -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
