Feature requests

Mathias Wolkert tias at netnod.se
Tue May 3 09:29:11 CEST 2011


BGP dynamic neighbors using subnet ranges.

/Tias


On 5/2/11 21:53 , Ondrej Zajicek wrote:
> Hello
>
> We (BIRD developers) would like to know which major features you miss in
> BIRD and would like to be implemented. If you have some opinions on that
> issue, please write suggested features together with several sentences
> about why you think that is the feature we should implement or why you
> need that. This inquiry is oriented on long-term, major features, but
> if you have some minor requests, you are also welcome.
>
> Our current short-term plan is to fix RIP (and multipath for RIP)
> and implement Route Origin Authorization / RPKI drafts for BGP.
>
>
> Some examples:
>
> OSPF NSSA
> OSPF opaque LSAs
> .. or some other OSPF extensions
> BGP confederations
> BGP extended communities
> .. or some other BGP extensions
> MRT routing table dumps
> Some monitoring/statistics integration (SNMP, collectd ...)
> Route aggregation engine
> Static routes depedent on ping reachability
> BFD (Bidirectional Forwarding Detection)
> IS-IS
> Some ad-hoc wireless routing like OSPF MANET or OLSR
> Multicast routing?
>
> .. or perhaps no new big features, just some more work to already
> implemented areas?
>
>
> BTW, from these examples, my personal preference is currently on BFD.
>




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