Let's add an IPv4 route into freeRouter CLI | Code Block |
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| language | bash |
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| theme | Midnight |
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| title | route addition via freeRouter |
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| conf t
ipv4 route v1 1.2.3.0 255.255.255.0 4.4.4.4
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Upon entering the ipv4 route and pressing <enter>, you'll see the following message appearing | Code Block |
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| language | bash |
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| theme | Midnight |
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| title | message API: route4_add |
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rx: ['route4_add', '1.2.3.0/24', '13063', '4.4.4.4', '1', '\n']
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Let's delete the route via FreeRouter CLI | Code Block |
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| language | bash |
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| theme | Midnight |
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| title | route deletion via freeRouter |
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| conf t
no ipv4 route v1 1.2.3.0 255.255.255.0 4.4.4.4
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| Code Block |
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| language | bash |
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| theme | Midnight |
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| title | message API: route4_del |
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rx: ['route4_del', '1.2.3.0/24', '13063', '4.4.4.4', '1', '\n']
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| Warning |
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| In short, the message API is simply a collection of message that would trigger an entry ADD/ |
DELDELETE/MODIFY into the dataplane corresponding table. |
The documentation of this message API will be documented and published soon, but for those who are curious and can't wait this documentation, you can read forwarder.py, bf_forwarder.py or p4dpdk.bin source code |