Nexthop/nexthop groups question

[Marek Zarychta]

On 23.09.2020 07:10, Maria Matějka wrote:
> Hello!
>
> Yes, we definitely want to support it, yet last time when we were 
> talking about it, it was still unstable. It is good news that it 
> really has come in, we'll study it and most likely also implement it.
>
> Thank you for pointing this out.
> Maria
>
> On September 22, 2020 11:08:02 PM GMT+02:00, "Alexander V. Chernikov" 
> <melifaro at ipfw.ru> wrote:
>
>     Hi folks,
>
>     Cumulus people implemented nexthop objects/nexthop groups [1] in Linux kernel some time ago. These changes allow for more efficient communications between kernel and userspace w/ wide multipath & large amount of routes.
>
>     Initial support landed [2] in FRR in 2019 and has notably improved since then.
>     Are there any plans to support this functionality in bird?
>
>
>     [1]:https://linuxplumbersconf.org/event/4/contributions/434/attachments/251/436/nexthop-objects-talk.pdf  <https://linuxplumbersconf.org/event/4/contributions/434/attachments/251/436/nexthop-objects-talk.pdf>
>     [2]:https://github.com/FRRouting/frr/commit/50d8965075cf59744dde685ae01400d9b7ee08a2#diff-33257ed1c568e6554134d48dc13332d1  <https://github.com/FRRouting/frr/commit/50d8965075cf59744dde685ae01400d9b7ee08a2#diff-33257ed1c568e6554134d48dc13332d1>
>
>     /Alexander
>
>
> -- 
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Dear Programmers,

does it imply, that upcoming Linux nexthop objects/nexthop groups 
support in Bird will be automatically compatible also with just 
committed FreeBSD new routing kpi[1] ?

[1] https://reviews.freebsd.org/D24232

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Marek Zarychta

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