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authorPavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>2000-05-30 19:20:02 +0000
committerPavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>2000-05-30 19:20:02 +0000
commit36032dedc619a39d45d6abe79d27110a98751ba9 (patch)
tree831a8dc7060c58d56f964f749070b3d94c364c30
parent3e8645560624ac70ccc6d5f96fabcdae0a87cf4d (diff)
Added section about client.
-rw-r--r--TODO10
-rw-r--r--doc/bird.sgml27
2 files changed, 21 insertions, 16 deletions
diff --git a/TODO b/TODO
index cce62832..68195106 100644
--- a/TODO
+++ b/TODO
@@ -89,11 +89,6 @@ o Napsat neco o tom, jak filtry debugovat -- ze existuje trasovani filtru
o `filters internally work ...' patri do progdoc.
o Vysvetlit nesting a zastinovani.
o Nadefinovat, co se stane, kdyz funkce nevrati hodnotu, i kdyz ma.
-o Typy: tez rici, ze integery se lisi nejen od booleanu, ale take od enumu.
-o Boolean: TRUE nebo true? U kazdeho typu zminit, jak vypadaji literaly
- tohoto typu a psat je vzdycky tt fontem.
-o int: Nadefinovat rozsah a rici, ze preteceni se nekontroluje. Zminit
- hexadecimalni konstanty.
o ip: IPv4/IPv6 nezavisi na verzi BIRDa, nybrz na compile-time konfiguraci.
o ip: .mask zminit zvlast mezi specialnimi operatory.
o set: lepe vysvetlit matchovani prefixu, ukazat na prikladu.
@@ -102,11 +97,6 @@ o bgpmask: vysvetlit matchovani.
o operations: prejmenovat na `operators', mela by to asi byt tabulka
operatoru, u kazdeho receno, na jakych typech je definovan a jakeho
typu je vysledek.
-o operations: ~ pracuje i na clistech, neni-liz pravda?
-o Examply by mohly byt krapet smysluplnejsi.
-o defined(): To, ze undefined attribute cannot be accessed, by melo byt
- rozhodne receno nekde jinde (v uvodu sekce) -- vzdyt u defined samotneho
- to mozne je.
o attributes: nemyslim, ze jsou vsechny -- co treba scope a preference?
o print: a coz takhle printn apod.?
o Mezi prikazy nikde neni zminen napriklad accept a reject.
diff --git a/doc/bird.sgml b/doc/bird.sgml
index fe08b2aa..8a274e0d 100644
--- a/doc/bird.sgml
+++ b/doc/bird.sgml
@@ -106,6 +106,8 @@ configuration primitives, &lt;cf&gt; is fragment of configuration within normal
vi /usr/local/etc/bird.conf
</code>
+<p>You can use <tt>./configure --help</tt> to get list of configure options.
+
<sect1>About routing tables
<p>Bird has one or more routing tables. Each routing table contains
@@ -231,6 +233,18 @@ protocol rip {
</descrip>
+<sect1>Client
+
+<p>You can use command-line client <file>birdc</file> to talk with
+running BIRD. Communications is done using <file/bird.ctl/ unix domain
+socket (unless changed with <tt/-s/ option given to both server and
+client). Client can do simple actions such as enabling/disabling
+protocols, telling BIRD to show various information, telling it to
+show routing table filtered by any filter, or telling bird to
+reconfigure. Press <tt/?/ at any time to get online help. Option
+<tt/-v/ can be passed to client, telling it to dump numeric return
+codes.
+
<sect>Filters
<sect1>Introduction
@@ -306,7 +320,7 @@ is rejected.
<sect1>Data types
<p>Each variable and each value has certain type. Unlike C, filters distinguish between integers and
-booleans (that is to prevent you from shooting in the foot).
+booleans and between integers and enums (that is to prevent you from shooting in the foot).
<descrip>
<tag/bool/ this is boolean type, it can have only two values, <cf/TRUE/ and
@@ -314,7 +328,7 @@ booleans (that is to prevent you from shooting in the foot).
statements.
<tag/int/ this is common integer, you can expect it to store signed values from -2000000000
- to +2000000000.
+ to +2000000000. Overflows are not checked.
<tag/pair/ this is pair of two short integers. Each component can have values from 0 to
65535. Constant of this type is written as <cf/(1234,5678)/.
@@ -406,12 +420,13 @@ if 1234 = i then printn "."; else { print "*** FAIL: if 1 else"; }
<sect1>Route attributes
-<p>Filter is implicitly passed route, and it can access its attributes, just like it accesses variables.
+<p>Filter is implicitly passed route, and it can access its
+attributes, just like it accesses variables. Access to undefined
+attribute results in runtime error; you can check if attribute is
+defined using <cf>defined( <m>attribute</m> )</cf> syntax.
-<descrip>
- <tag>defined( <m>attribute</m> )</tag>
- returns TRUE if given attribute is defined. Access to undefined attribute results in runtime error.
+<descrip>
<tag/<m/prefix/ network/
network this route is talking about.