Hi Richard, As discussed in issue #2900 [1], the same functionality of BGP views can be achieved by running a separate bgpd instance with --pathspace and --no_kernel. With this approach it should even be possible to run BGP views within VRFs. Do you think that would work for you? The only downside I see is the extra management overhead to deal with multiple instances (additional directories and configuration file, separate vtysh session to access the second bgpd instance, etc). Nothing that should be a big problem from my perspective. Cheers, Renato. [1] https://github.com/FRRouting/frr/issues/2900 On Tue, Sep 4, 2018 at 2:18 PM, Richard Mayhew [directel] <richard@directel.co.za> wrote:
Hello,
We make use of views so that the underlying operating system is not aware of any routes held by the frr bgp process. We use FRR as our core network route servers between a number of core nodes to allow them to exchange routes between them (filters...etc.)
I think having the views feature is an advantage to FRR when running as a route server since the underlining OS has no need to know or make use of the routes held in the routing table.
-- Kind Regards
Richard Mayhew
________________________________ From: dev <dev-bounces@lists.frrouting.org> on behalf of Donald Sharp <sharpd@cumulusnetworks.com> Sent: Tuesday, September 4, 2018 6:23:12 PM To: FRRouting-Dev Subject: [dev] BGP Views
In today's technical meeting we discussed removing the ability to have views as an option in bgp. Before we do any such thing we decided to poll the community to see if anyone is using views and if so what is the use case that they are using them under. So if you have any insight into this we would love to hear from you!
Thanks!
donald
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