[dev] BGP Views

[Renato Westphal]

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 at 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
>
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> From: dev <dev-bounces at lists.frrouting.org> on behalf of Donald Sharp
> <sharpd at 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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Renato Westphal