> You basically have two options: > 1. Teach your routing protocol daemon to directly talk to VPP for configuring > the FIB. > 2. Do not modify the routing daemon and let VPP map routes written in the > kernel. > > For 1, you will need the router plugin, but for packet punting only. > > For 2., you will need both netlink+router plugins. The netlink plugin (which > actually more like a library), shouldn't require so much changes though.
With TCP support in VPP I was playing with the idea of integrating exaBGP as a VPP plugin. Use the Python API binding to program routes, and receive the BGP stream across a fifo (or even the API). Cheers, Ole >> Le 26 mars 2017 à 16:31, Łukasz Chrustek <ski...@tlen.pl> a écrit : >> >> Hello, >> >> thank all of You for clarification of status router plugin. >> >> I'm trying to use vpp+dpdk as bare metal linux ruter with bgp and ospf >> routing protocols, goal is to make very fast router with dynamic routing >> protocols. Can You advice is there any other way to exchange dynamic routing >> information between os and vpp ? >> >> Regards >> Lukasz >> >> >> The mailman did not let my last message go through because it was too big so >> I am removing the previous threads to keep this message under 100KB limit. >> >> Hello, >> >> Dave and Pierre are correct, the router plugin is no longer being >> maintained. There was not much interest in the community for this project at >> the time and I have since moved on to other things. I’d be happy to help a >> new maintainer with any questions they may have. >> >> If you really want to just test it out, I suggest attempting to checkout a >> commit of VPP close to the last commit on the router plugin. Somewhere >> closely following VPP commit 0bfe5d8c792abcdb, “A Protocol Independent >> Hierarchical FIB (VPP-352)” will work (you might have to git bisect to get >> something that compiles right away). >> >> If necessary, I can submit a patch to remove the router plugin from the VPP >> sandbox with a note on the wiki page mentioning the finalization of the >> project. I recall there being an 8-month time limit for these the sandbox >> projects. >> >> -Jeff >> >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > vpp-dev mailing list > vpp-dev@lists.fd.io > https://lists.fd.io/mailman/listinfo/vpp-dev
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