[Olsr-dev] first sketch of jsoninfo olsrd plugin

[Henning Rogge]

On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 9:18 PM, Ferry Huberts <(spam-protected)> wrote:
> On 09-05-12 20:43, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>> On 05/09/2012 03:07 AM, Henning Rogge wrote:
>>> On 05/09/2012 06:50 AM, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>>>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
>>>> Hash: SHA256
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I just pushed the first version of the jsoninfo plugin for getting the
>>>> status and config info from olsrd in JSON format.  Right now, it gives
>>>> all of the data that the txtinfo plugin does, indeed it is based on
>>>> the txtinfo plugin.  It does not yet return the /config information.
>>>
>>> Very nice, I will have a look at it in the next days.
>>>
>>>> Also, I plan on adding the ability to configure HNAs at runtime via
>>>> this plugin (like dyn_gw_plain).
>
> And how would this be secured?
> I'm not feeling very comfortable with allowing random processes to change my
> HNAs

Thats one of the advantages of two sockets... you can bind the
"control" socket to 127.0.0.1... which at least makes it impossible
for outside nodes to change your settings.

>> One of the goals is to have a simple, standard-feeling API getting and
>> setting things in olsrd.  Having the hna setting in a different plugin
>> means opening a separate network socket, and would add needless
>> complexity.  Instead someone who wants a standalone runtime_hna plugin
>> could just take the code out of the jsoninfo plugin, and we have both
>> options.

We will do this in the next release of OLSRd with the centralized
telnet and http server. But I don't think mixing two totally different
functionalities in the same plugin is really good.

Henning Rogge

-- 
Steven Hawkings about cosmic inflation: "An increase of billions of
billions of percent in a tiny fraction of a second. Of course, that
was before the present government."