On Wed, 2019-06-05 at 07:22 +0200, Patrick Schaaf wrote: > CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do > not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender > and know the content is safe. > > > On Tue, Jun 4, 2019 at 9:08 PM Cybertinus <[email protected]> wrote: > > What I do on my Bird 1.6.4 install is run `ip r | wc -l` and check > > if I > > have a full table in the kernel routing table. A second method I > > use is > > check if the Bird process doesn't use a single CPU core anymore. I > > use > > htop for this, but other cli monitoring tools could be used too. > > Funny, we're doing pretty much the same, even automated, to only > enable BGP towards inside clients (and send them a default route) > once > a full table has been received. > > For an efficient implementation, as "ip r" takes quite a while with a > full table, we found that there's a nice compount counter in > /proc/net/fib_triestat (Prefixes), which is what we actually use. > > best regards > Patrick
Thanks for your proposals, but we need a robust machine interface to check the re-configuration status. I will propose a patch.
