[Olsr-dev] events/notifications for route changes?

[Henning Rogge]

On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 12:05 AM, Ian Rose <(spam-protected)> wrote:
> Greetings all,
>
> I'm just getting started with OLSR hacking and I'm interested in
> developing a plugin that would receive some kind of notification from
> the OLSR core code whenever a network route is updated (added, deleted,
> changed).  From digging through the code (v0.5.5) I see that there seems
> to be a mechanism by which plugins can register callbacks for when
> network interfaces are added/removed (add_ifchgf and del_ifchgf in
> src/interfaces.h).  But I am unable to find analogous functions to
> registering callbacks for when routes change.  Does such a thing exist?
I don't think so, but it should be easy to implement.

Look into src/process_routes.c, all routing changes should go through
the functions of this file. Maybe a "routing preprocessing callback"
would be a nice idea, so we can write plugins that filter routes.

Henning

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