[Click] XORP+Click Hotconfig

Eddie Kohler kohler at icir.org
Sat Jan 20 03:47:14 EST 2007


Swati,

Which routing table were you relying on?  I think none of our routing table 
elements support hotswapping (they drop all routes on swap), but they probably 
should.

Eddie


Swati Sinha Deb wrote:
> Hi Pavlin,
> 
> Many thanks for your reply. I did change my hotswap program to add the 
> missing routes and it worked. Thank you very much for your help.
> 
> Regards,
> Swati
> 
> 
> 
> --On 03 October 2006 13:27 -0700 Pavlin Radoslavov <pavlin at icir.org> wrote:
> 
> 
>> No, there is no mechanism to force XORP to re-insert the routes into
>> the forwarding engine.
>> If a third-party software (e.g., your hotswap program) is indirectly
>> manipulating the forwarding table, then this program should restore
>> the missing routes. In other words, your program should read the
>> forwarding table before and after the hotswap, compare both tables,
>> and add the missing routes.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Pavlin
>>
> 
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