New bird functionality

[Ondrej Filip]

On 24.9.2013 16:35, Thierry FOURNIER wrote:
> Hello,
> 

Hello!
Thank you very much! Santiago will take care of the first patch. He
found some issues in that. The second patch is questionable. There is
probably no need to add a new protocol. We will rather go the way to
improve some existing protocol. Do not forget the same functionality
can be done modifying some special Unix kernel table and learning the
routes using kernel protocol. We will look at it.

		Ondrej


> I submit two patched.
> 
>    0001-PATCH-FLX-Add-command-line-option-for-specifying-the.patch
> 
> The first one is to add the -P <pidfile> argument on the command line.
> On some distributions, the pidfile is managed into the start script and
> not into the configuration file.
> 
>    0003-FEAT-Add-protocol-volatile.patch
> 
> The second patch is new protocol. I named it "protocol volatile". This
> permit to add routes into bird via the control socket. These route are
> volatile: when bird restart, they are lost.
> 
> This is useful for servers using transparent redirect and transparent
> binding like "squid" or "haproxy". This two softs can receive trafic for
> an ip not present on the system. This new feature "protocol volatile"
> permit to do high avalaibility infrastructure with announcing these
> routes only if the service is avalaible. This permit also to do
> load-balacing: if many computers annouce the same route, the router can
> be use ecmp algorithm for the repartion.
> 
> Thierry FOURNIER
>