[support] Dynamic MNP's for MR?

[Romain KUNTZ]

Hi Mattias,

On 2009/09/01, at 9:27, Mattias Blomqvist wrote:
>> Just for clarification, what is the relationship (or timing)  
>> between the
>> change in MNP list on the MR and on the HA (the timing of the BU/BA
>> exchange)?
>> I mean, do you want to force a change in the MR from the HA by way  
>> of BA
>> content (then when does the MR sends a BU?) or do you plan to trig  
>> the
>> change in the MR, then this change must be authorized and  
>> synchronized
>> in the HA by a BU/BA exchange, after which the HA updates its routing
>> table as well to mirror the change?
>
> What I'm looking for is to change the MNP list on the MR so it does a
> new BU with the new information.
> This can presently only be done by changing the configuration and
> restarting the mip6d which takes a couple of seconds.


The dynamic reload patch [1] seems to support the change of MNP on the  
HA configuration side, but not on the MN side. This patch could  
however be extended to support such feature, as it already implements  
a few useful functions to compare entries and trigger handler  
functions upon changes.

[1] http://hg.natisbad.org/migrate2_patches_umip_nemo/file/0d825828357e/dynreload.patch

Cheers,
romain