python or rest API?

[bodleytunes]

Hi,

This isn't an issue, more of a question, but I was wondering if there is a way to control FRR other than from the cli, either via some means like REST, python or unix socket, even bash?

I was hoping to use something like Dpinger to check a link quality by pinging something remotely and then based on a threshold, tell FRR to make a change to IBGP to signal an upstream router to change a next hop. Sort of a poor mans IP SLA.

I have done the same thing using keepaliveD and two vpn tunnels but I wanted to do away with need for tunnels and keep everything local.

May be a daft question, but I thought i'd ask anyway! :)

Cheers!
Jon.

[rzalamena]

Hi @bodleytunes ,

There is no such thing yet, but here are two suggestions:

• Short term: use vtysh -c "<command>", but if it is not enough you may write your FRR script of commands to a text file and load it with: vtysh -f <your-frr-script-file>.

• Long term: the FRR northbound interface is being implemented, the CLI and everything else is going to use it. You will be able to create programming language bindings, create RESTful interfaces to access it or directly access it using configd/yang models. It is still under active development and needs help / testers --> Northbound API #2705 .

The first daemon to get support for this will be ripd.

[bodleytunes]

Brilliant thanks for the heads up. I will just use the vtysh -c commands for now. Cheers, Jon.

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