How to determine when reconfiguration is complete?

[Kenth Eriksson]

On Wed, 2019-06-05 at 07:22 +0200, Patrick Schaaf wrote:
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> On Tue, Jun 4, 2019 at 9:08 PM Cybertinus <bird at cybertinus.nl> wrote:
> > What I do on my Bird 1.6.4 install is run `ip r | wc -l` and check
> > if I
> > have a full table in the kernel routing table. A second method I
> > use is
> > check if the Bird process doesn't use a single CPU core anymore. I
> > use
> > htop for this, but other cli monitoring tools could be used too.
> 
> Funny, we're doing pretty much the same, even automated, to only
> enable BGP towards inside clients (and send them a default route)
> once
> a full table has been received.
> 
> For an efficient implementation, as "ip r" takes quite a while with a
> full table, we found that there's a nice compount counter in
> /proc/net/fib_triestat (Prefixes), which is what we actually use.
> 
> best regards
>   Patrick

Thanks for your proposals, but we need a robust machine interface to
check the re-configuration status. I will propose a patch.