All the 'dump something' CLI commands now have a new mandatory
argument -- name of the file where to dump the data. This allows
for more flexible dumping even for production deployments where
the debug output is by default off.
Also the dump commands are now restricted (they weren't before)
to assure that only the appropriate users can run these time consuming
commands.
The period of recurent timers was stored in 32b field, despite it was
btime-compatible value in us. Therefore, it was limited to ~72 min,
which mas okay for most purposes, except configurable MRT dump periods.
Thanks to Felix Friedlander for the bugreport.
The code in tm_format_real_time() mixed up two buffers and their
sizes, which may cause crash in MRT dumping code.
Thanks to Piotr Wydrych for the bugreport.
The new MRT protocol is responsible for periodic RIB table dumps in the
MRT format (RFC 6396). Also the existing code for BGP4MP MRT dumps is
refactored and splitted between BGP to MRT protocols, will be more
integrated into MRT in the future.
Example:
protocol mrt {
table "*";
filename "%N_%F_%T.mrt";
period 60;
}
It is partially based on the old MRT code from Pavel Tvrdik.
The old timer interface is still kept, but implemented by new timers. The
plan is to switch from the old inteface to the new interface, then clean
it up.
