On Tue, Feb 08, 2022 at 09:49:04AM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > On Tue, 8 Feb 2022 16:15:15 +0000 > "Medvedkin, Vladimir" <vladimir.medved...@intel.com> wrote: > > > >> Or have a generic library for reading LPM entries. L3fwd is supposed > > >> to be as small as possible (it no longer is), and the real work should > > >> be done by libraries to make it easier to build other applications. > > > > > > I never heard users ask about such thing, > > > but if there is a demand for that, then I suppose it could be considered. > > > CC-ing LPM/FIB maintainers to comment. > > > Though I believe it should be a subject of separate patch and discussion > > > (I think many questions will arise - what format should be, how to support > > > different types of user-data, to make it generic enough, etc.). > > > > Agree, it is very application specific, so it could be really difficult > > to make it generic. > > But several other also have LPM tables, so why not have common code for other > applications. > > examples/l3fwd-power/main.c > examples/ipsec-secgw/rt.c > examples/ip_fragmentation/main.c > examples/l3fwd/l3fwd_lpm.c > examples/ip_reassembly/main.c
Could we perhaps add a "load" function to the lpm library itself?
