On Mon, Apr 01, 2019 at 03:42:02PM +0200, Job Snijders wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I've consulted with numerous user interface experts, their consistent
> advice was to facilitate internalization by provoking simpler, stronger
> emotions through the text based interface.
>
> bgpctl(8) will now provide simplified 'SAD' or 'HAPPY' ascii ideograms
> to help network operators quickly understand whether a route is valid or
> not. I suspect this patch is the final missing piece to make the
> struggle for RPKI adoption a thing of the past.
I would suggest we check the locale for UTF-8 and use emoji characters in
that case to compress the output so we get more onto a single line?
> Example output:
>
> $ bgpctl show rib
> flags: * = Valid, > = Selected, I = via IBGP, A = Announced,
> S = Stale, E = Error
> origin validation state: ? = not-found, :-) = valid, :-( = invalid
> origin: i = IGP, e = EGP, ? = Incomplete
>
> flags ovs destination gateway lpref med aspath origin
> I*> :-) 1.0.0.0/24 192.147.168.1 100 0 2914 13335 i
> I*> ? 199.185.136.0/23 192.147.168.1 100 0 2914 3257
> 22512 i
> I*> :-( 199.47.227.0/24 192.147.168.1 100 0 2914 7018
> 17216 i
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Job
>
> diff --git usr.sbin/bgpctl/bgpctl.c usr.sbin/bgpctl/bgpctl.c
> index ae5dab9c620..f998514fe90 100644
> --- usr.sbin/bgpctl/bgpctl.c
> +++ usr.sbin/bgpctl/bgpctl.c
> @@ -1127,7 +1127,7 @@ show_rib_summary_head(void)
> {
> printf("flags: * = Valid, > = Selected, I = via IBGP, A = Announced,\n"
> " S = Stale, E = Error\n");
> - printf("origin validation state: N = not-found, V = valid, ! =
> invalid\n");
> + printf("origin validation state: ? = not-found, :-) = valid, :-( =
> invalid\n");
> printf("origin: i = IGP, e = EGP, ? = Incomplete\n\n");
> printf("%-5s %3s %-20s %-15s %5s %5s %s\n", "flags", "ovs",
> "destination",
> "gateway", "lpref", "med", "aspath origin");
> @@ -1204,11 +1204,11 @@ print_ovs(u_int8_t validation_state, int sum)
> {
> switch (validation_state) {
> case ROA_INVALID:
> - return (sum ? "!" : "invalid");
> + return (sum ? ":-(" : "invalid");
> case ROA_VALID:
> - return (sum ? "V" : "valid");
> + return (sum ? ":-)" : "valid");
> default:
> - return (sum ? "N" : "not-found");
> + return (sum ? "?" : "not-found");
> }
> }
>
--
:wq Claudio
