Display BGP gateway mode in show protocol output

Ondrej Zajicek santiago at crfreenet.org
Mon Sep 8 16:08:14 CEST 2025


On Mon, Sep 08, 2025 at 09:17:17AM +0000, Sébastien PARISOT wrote:
> Hello David,
> 
> To be honest I expected this kind of answer for the first 2 patches :)
> I thought this one would be ok as it only adds a new field/line in the
> output and do not touch the existing output, but sure I understand.
> Relying on text output is always fragile and any change is risky.

Hello

You are right, this is more an answer for the first 2 patches. We are
generally okay with adding a new line to 'show protocols all' from the
compatibility point of view. But our rule of thumb here is that we do
not want to add a line here that is purely configuration data without
a good reason, as this command should mainly show runtime data.

People could argue that half of BGP configuration options are important
enough to be shown here and we would like to avoid adding them all,
especially when these command outputs are manually implemented.

-- 
Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo

Ondrej 'Santiago' Zajicek (email: santiago at crfreenet.org)
"To err is human -- to blame it on a computer is even more so."



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