MRTdump (Was: Re: New in BIRD)

[Ilias Pallikarakis]

On 5/30/14, 3:57 PM, Job Snijders wrote:
> On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 11:21:01PM +0200, Ondrej Zajicek wrote:
>> On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 08:42:04PM +0900, Ilias Pallikarakis wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> I figured out that my problem was simply not configuring BIRD for
>>> multihop neighbour.
>>> I have, however, another question if someone would care to answer. From my
>>> search so far I came to the conclusion that in BIRD you cannot mrtdump
>>> to more
>>> than one file (per process) and that it is still not possible to
>>> periodically dump a
>>> table. Is that correct ?
>> That is true. MRTdump was on border of my interests but it could be
>> easily extended. What features w.r.t. MRTdump would be considered
>> useful?
> Automatic file rollover would be a great feature!
>
> Have the BIRD process periodically (say every hour) close the MRT file,
> and open a new one with a new filename which has the date in it.
> Bonuspoints for making these intervals configurable :-)
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Job
>
Not sure if this is considered a given but having the ability to store 
the tables in
a different file than the BGP update/state changes (or any other 
protocol you might
see fit to support dumps) would also be greatly appreciated.

Best Regards,

Ilias