Nexthop/nexthop groups question

Maria Matějka maria.matejka at nic.cz
Wed Sep 23 07:10:45 CEST 2020


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
>[2]:
>https://github.com/FRRouting/frr/commit/50d8965075cf59744dde685ae01400d9b7ee08a2#diff-33257ed1c568e6554134d48dc13332d1
>
>/Alexander

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