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Re: Low Cost 10G Router


From: Nick Hilliard <nick () foobar org>
Date: Wed, 20 May 2015 15:50:16 +0100

On 20/05/2015 15:25, Aled Morris wrote:
Couldn't your back-end scripts running under ExaBGP also manage the FIB,
using standard Unix tools/APIs?

Managing the FIB is basically just "route add" and "route delete" right?

Yes, you could probably do this.  No, you probably wouldn't want to do
this.  Pls see the netlink interface modules in bird and quagga to
understand why.

Nick



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