Add note on 'Applying' verb which will come next.
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an error is repeated N times, and it's good practice to precisely establish how many errors
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an error is repeated N times, and it's good practice to precisely establish how many errors
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should be expected. That said, this field can be empty or omitted.
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should be expected. That said, this field can be empty or omitted.
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## Reconciling
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## Planning
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The second important task of this utility is to take the wellformed (validated) configuration and
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The second important task of this utility is to take the wellformed (validated) configuration and
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apply it to the VPP dataplane. The overall flow consists of three phases:
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apply it to the VPP dataplane. The overall flow consists of three phases:
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must be temporarily set admin-down to change that!)
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must be temporarily set admin-down to change that!)
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1. Add IPv4/IPv6 addresses
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1. Add IPv4/IPv6 addresses
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1. Set admin state for all interfaces
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1. Set admin state for all interfaces
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## Applying
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Finally, once the path planner does its work and orders the operations to reconcile the running dataplane
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into the desired configuration, we can apply the configuration. Currently not implemented, pending a bit
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of community feedback.
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For now, the path planner works by reading the API configuration state exactly once (at startup), and then
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it figures out the CLI calls to print without needing to consult VPP again. This is super useful as it’s a
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non-intrusive way to inspect the changes before applying them, and it’s a property I’d like to carry forward.
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However, I don’t necessarily think that emitting the CLI statements is the best user experience, it’s more for
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the purposes of analysis that they can be useful. What I really want to do is emit API calls after the plan
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is created and reviewed/approved, directly reprogramming the VPP dataplane. However, the VPP API set needed
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to do this is not 100% baked yet. For example, I observed crashes when tinkering with BVIs and Loopbacks,
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and fixed a few obvious errors in the Linux CP API but there are still a few more issues to work through
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before I can set the next step with vppcfg.
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