On Mon, Jun 12, 2023 at 3:17 PM Ondrej Zajicek <santi...@crfreenet.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 12, 2023 at 01:08:15PM +0200, Alexander Zubkov via Bird-users > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > The main concern is that a 6-byte bytestring conflicts with the MAC > address > > representation. Bird does not have the type for it currently, but who > > knows, it might need it in the future. So we might need some new syntax > for > > bytestring in that case. Or it can be postponed to later time. In this > case > > introduction of MAC-address lexems would break configs that use 6-byte > > bytestrings (if we want to care much about those). > > Hi > > I already added MAC-address lexem and shortened minimum bytestring length > to 9 bytes in EVPN branch (to represent 10-byte ESI) : > > > https://gitlab.nic.cz/labs/bird/-/commit/cf0661c9762090231c9f2d973968a7ce9f98407e > > I was afraid to shorten non-colon variant, becuase somebody using the variable name "feedfacecafebeef01" might get hurt. :) > So i would keep it at that limit and used e.g. hex:XX:YY:... syntax > for shorter ones. > But Maria has a good point, that it may be beneficial to be able to input the blob with spaces or even line breaks, which requires some sort of "brackets". > > -- > Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo > > Ondrej 'Santiago' Zajicek (email: santi...@crfreenet.org) > OpenPGP encrypted e-mails preferred (KeyID 0x11DEADC3, wwwkeys.pgp.net) > "To err is human -- to blame it on a computer is even more so." >
