Re: [PATCH RFC 1/1] Add the Babel routing protocol (RFC 6129) to Bird.

2015-08-26 Thread Ondrej Zajicek
On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 11:18:34PM +0200, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen wrote: > So what events cause a neighbour to go away / come back as far as the > bird core is concerned? Is it just the obvious case of the interface > going up/down and gaining or losing addresses? Or is there something > smarter? Y

Re: [PATCH RFC 1/1] Add the Babel routing protocol (RFC 6129) to Bird.

2015-08-26 Thread Gustavo Ponza
Hi Ondrej, Using the old RIP protocol implementation as a basis is a problem - that code has several design problems, some of these seems to be shared by the Babel code. Not to mention its idiosyncratic coding conventions are far from ones used in the rest of BIRD. We are currently finishing rew