Exact Definition of numbers-match bitmask-match and fragmentation-type

Maria Matejka maria.matejka at nic.cz
Mon Apr 5 11:04:47 CEST 2021


Hello!

On 4/4/21 6:18 PM, Matt Corallo wrote:
> For context, I'm currently writing a birdc-flowspec -> XDP 
> parser/transpiler, so exact formal grammar and behavior is important :). 
> You can find it at https://github.com/TheBlueMatt/flowspec-xdp.

Would you benefit from having Python API in BIRD, getting the flowspec 
rules as proper objects?

> It currently only supports drop/pass, however, and doesn't parse the 
> action communities as it doesn't appear BIRD supports them? The RFC 
> indicates extended community types in the 0x800X range, but BIRD appears 
> to only support rt/ro. I may be missing something entirely obvious here, 
> though.

I remember coding something around that, anyway I don't remember whether 
we actually merged it. Will look for that.

Maria


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