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List:       quagga-dev
Subject:    [quagga-dev 8151] Re: Sorted BGP Instances
From:       "Chris Hall" <chris.hall.list () highwayman ! com>
Date:       2010-08-12 10:45:22
Message-ID: 037e01cb3a0b$776acb90$664062b0$ () hall ! list () highwayman ! com
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paul@jakma.org wrote (on 12-Aug-2010 at 10:49):
> On Wed, 11 Aug 2010, Chris Hall wrote:
> 
> > I note that in some places it treats the first bgp instance as the
> > "default" -- bgp_get_default().

> > So changing the ordering would AFAICS make a difference.  So making
> > it an option would preserve current function -- which seems like
> > a reasonable approach to me.

> Yes, the first defined instance is currently special - the default. I
> guess with sorted you could define some other way to mark the default

Hmm... then there's "no router bgp" which can remove the first instance and
implicitly change the default.  So you might need a list of instances in
creation order :-)

> (or get rid of the notion of any instance being default?).

That requires a better understanding of the logic behind the command
language than I have.

Chris

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