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| author | David Lamparter <equinox@opensourcerouting.org> | 2017-03-25 10:05:19 +0100 |
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| committer | David Lamparter <equinox@opensourcerouting.org> | 2017-03-25 10:05:19 +0100 |
| commit | 6b0275ac354993e56e043986efbc41d3d451beee (patch) | |
| tree | 91c503159107752e1d595921ee96f58ae79ee58a /doc/main.texi | |
| parent | zebra: fpm: convert into module (diff) | |
| download | frr-6b0275ac354993e56e043986efbc41d3d451beee.tar.xz frr-6b0275ac354993e56e043986efbc41d3d451beee.zip | |
doc: document loadable module support
Signed-off-by: David Lamparter <equinox@opensourcerouting.org>
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diff --git a/doc/main.texi b/doc/main.texi index dfe02e1b5..706baa25f 100644 --- a/doc/main.texi +++ b/doc/main.texi @@ -385,7 +385,8 @@ ip protocol rip route-map RM1 Zebra supports a 'FIB push' interface that allows an external component to learn the forwarding information computed by the Frr -routing suite. +routing suite. This is a loadable module that needs to be enabled +at startup as described in @ref{Loadable Module Support}. In Frr, the Routing Information Base (RIB) resides inside zebra. Routing protocols communicate their best routes to zebra, and @@ -440,9 +441,9 @@ independently. @end itemize As mentioned before, zebra encodes routes sent to the FPM in netlink -format by default. The format can be controlled via the -@code{--fpm_format} command-line option to zebra, which currently -takes the values @code{netlink} and @code{protobuf}. +format by default. The format can be controlled via the FPM module's +load-time option to zebra, which currently takes the values @code{netlink} +and @code{protobuf}. The zebra FPM interface uses replace semantics. That is, if a 'route add' message for a prefix is followed by another 'route add' message, |