Merging bird and bird6

[Ondrej Zajicek]

On Thu, Jul 07, 2011 at 01:09:48AM +0400, Alexander V. Chernikov wrote:
> Hello list!
> 
> Are there any plans to move from different daemons to single one?
> 
> From user point of view:
> We will live with both v4+v6 for the next 10+ years, having all dynamic
> routing in single place with single CLI is much more convenient.
> 
> From developer point of view:
> At the moment all code is based on ip_addr address type which is defined
> to be v4 OR v6 at compile time. FIBs API assume the same: IPv4 OR IPv6.

My idea [*] about the future of IPv4/IPv6 split is to allow IPv4
addresses be embedded in IPv6 ip_addr (probably using IPv4-mapped
address prefix). That would allow integration with minimal changes
(probably just some UI changes, some FIB integration and some tricks
with dual compilation of one-AF protocols).

Bird4 would still be IPv4-only (with ip_addr of size 4 B) mainly for
users with big route server deployments, but bird6 would support both
IPv4 and IPv6.

Is this model consistent with your requirements / way of development?

[*] originally suggested by Martin Mares.

-- 
Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo

Ondrej 'SanTiago' Zajicek (email: santiago at crfreenet.org)
OpenPGP encrypted e-mails preferred (KeyID 0x11DEADC3, wwwkeys.pgp.net)
"To err is human -- to blame it on a computer is even more so."
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 197 bytes
Desc: Digital signature
URL: <http://trubka.network.cz/pipermail/bird-users/attachments/20110707/dac7ee53/attachment-0001.asc>