[PATCH] feature to keep protocol's state while configuring

[Thomás S. Bregolin]

Hello,

On Wed, Nov 28, 2018, 16:34 Alexander Zubkov <green at qrator.net wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have received no feedback on this suggestion and suppose it got
> lost. I would be glad to hear some comments about this improvement.
> On Fri, Nov 16, 2018 at 4:36 PM Alexander Zubkov <green at qrator.net> wrote:
> >
> > Hello.
> >
> > I have created a patch (attached) with new protocol option: disabled
> > keep on|off. To keep the protocol's state while loading new config. It
> > is useful when protocols disabled manually in the runtime, but we want
> > to keep that state when loading new config. Patch is attached. I have
> > made it against the current int-new branch.
>

I will second this would be nice to have. I use bird with protocols set to
disabled to keep them from coming up at the same time as the daemon, and
have actually resorted to a wrapper that changes the configuration file
in-place to "disabled no" before doing soft reconfiguration, and then back
to "yes".

Regards,

Thomás
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