Using Babel.router_id in filters

[Ondrej Zajicek]

On Mon, May 30, 2022 at 11:57:31AM -0300, James Oakley wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I would like to write a filter for a Babel protocol where I set a value based 
> on the Babel router ID. I can see Babel.router_id in the route attributes, but 
> it does not look like this is exposed to filters. Only babel_metric is 
> exposed.
> 
> Is there a reason for this or was it an oversight?

Hi

The primary reason is that we do not have matching data type in filter
language to access it (64bit number or arbitrary data).

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