[ixpmanager] multiple route servers handling

[Athanasios Douitsis]

Στις 2019-02-13 23:56, Barry O'Donovan έγραψε:
> Hi Athanasios,


Hello Barry,

> 
> Athanasios Douitsis wrote on 13/02/2019 13:18:
>> Birdseye 1.1.0 works flawlessly in each of our route servers. Would 
>> you be so kind as to indicate where can we find this updated version 
>> (some branch perhaps) and give it a spin in one of our test route 
>> servers? Do we just clone the HEAD from the master?
> 
> the functionality you see on the INEX IXP Manager link I provided is
> not really Bird's Eye. Bird's Eye provides the API access to the data
> but IXP Manager defines the communities in the route server
> configuration it generates and then interprets those to present the
> exclamation (route filtered) / coloured badges.


Okay, yes, makes total sense.


> 
> This isn't available for use or testing right now as it requires a ton
> of documentation for both the upgrade and the new features. What will
> be released in time is:
> 
> IXP Manager v5 - with Bird v2 support (where all of this functionality
> exists), RPKI support and the looking glass updates. Also an important
> note is that this functionality has not and will not be back ported to
> Bird v1.6 (as this does not support RPKI RTR). The IXP Manager code is
> in a private internal development repo.

Okay, so not visible yet.

> 
> Bird's Eye v1.2 which augments Bird's Eye to support changes in Bird
> v2 (this is all in the master branch).

Okay, again, makes sense.

Thank you most kindly for the clarifying response.

All in all, I can see that this is a change that touches practically 
everything (ixpmanager and birdseye), and goes beyond just incorporating 
the ability to see the prefixes from multiple route servers.

Kind regards,
Athanasios

> 
>  - Barry
> 
> 
> 
>> 
>> On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 2:40 PM Barry O'Donovan 
>> <barry.odonovan at inex.ie <mailto:barry.odonovan at inex.ie>> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>     Athanasios Douitsis wrote on 13/02/2019 11:55:
>>      > In your example, apart from the aesthetic makeover, I see that
>>     one can
>>      > see the blocked / filtered routes.I take it the feature will be
>>     using
>>      > the lg in the side of the route server and some pleasant
>>     interface in
>>      > the ixpmanager.
>> 
>>     Yes, this is part of the new features. Note the lg also shows 
>> /why/ a
>>     route is blocked (via the 'Details' button).
>> 
>>        - Barry
>> 
>> 
>>