[Bgpd-users] Announcement: bgpd.pl-0.05 released

[Steven H. <st...@xs...>]

Hi all,

I received a patch yesterday from Andrew <an...@su...>. I've 
integrated this patch into the 0.04 code and released bgpd.pl-0.05. It's 
available at http://sourceforge.net/projects/bgpd/

Here's the excerpt from the changelog:
RELEASE bgpd.pl-0.05 released on June 20th 2002
- Fixes provided Andrew of Supernews <an...@su...> His coments
included below:
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  - (critical) the logic of BGP::Neighbor::receive was completely wrong,
    leading to failure of the session (and many perl warnings) any time
    that the data returned from sysread() was shorter than expected,
    which is something that TCP-based applications must _always_ expect
    and handle.
  - (annoying) router-id in the config file didn't work at all
  - (serious) updates where the AS-PATH was present but empty (which is
    normal for local routes from iBGP peers) were treated as though
    the AS-PATH were missing (killing the session)
  - (trivial) changed the dump output format to eliminate whitespace in
    the prefix output for prefixes smaller than /10
  - (performance) most of the time taken to take in a full routing table
    was being eaten by BGP::Neighbor::log due to doing significant
    processing before checking the log level. The change I did results in
    about a 2x speedup with most logging turned off
I also changed the logfile open to use append mode, not really a bug
but probably more useful in most cases.

Stuff I didn't fix: your daemonize function uses a method that would
have been archaic 10 years ago, and closing stdin/out/err without
reopening them again is a dangerous practice. Check out
POSIX::setsid. (I'm not currently using daemon mode for various
reasons)
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