Rare project developers

[mc36 <>]

hi,

after the today discussions, started with alex and simon, and it progressed 
with flout, and the decision
is made that the dataplanes will send the detected capabilities to the 
control plane... at the moment the
tofino is the one who is have moving features, but already have a beginning 
with the configurable --srv6=0
and friends... these will become autodetected by table existence checks, and 
reported...

imho i won't deal with this info further as if the bffwd fills the detected 
capabilities correctly,
it'll cut down the unable-to-program grpc errors simply because it does not 
tries to program the
offending entries... for such a situations, a simple unknown-command message 
could be sent, echoing
the original message... which should be logged on terminals/syslogs/etc in 
freerouter...
and in the rare cases, if we still get grpc errors, they sould be reported 
too in a let's say
unable2fulfill message, again with the original request...

the p4dpdk and p4pcap already send the capabilities, with this commit:
and the sender side: 
https://github.com/mc36/freeRouter/commit/30ec54539156d9b5db447f771a341ade424201fc
and they don't have to deal with unable-to-program and sorry-notunderstood 
messages, fortunately... :)
the only thing that can happen if malloc returns null, but then they simply 
terminate....

from now, freerouter barely processes the capabilities starting this point:
https://github.com/mc36/freeRouter/commit/a1ed7c2953a12130576d8a62499eec2e7868a543

(it also contains a clear command as bffwd moved out of freerouter's startup 
territory on
the latest nix builds, and this is equivalent to the "clear ip cef *" in 
freerouter.... :)

so for now, this is what we have:

noti#
noti#show p4lang p4
info userReader.cmdEnter:userReader.java:1032 command noti#show p4lang p4  from 
local:telnet <loop> 23 -> 127.0.0.1 59440
2022-02-02 18:26:08
category   | value
peer       | 127.0.0.1
ready      | 3
capability | copp acl nat vlan bundle bridge pppoe hairpin gre l2tp route mpls vpls evpn eompls gretap pppoetap l2tptap vxlan ipip macsec ipsec pckoudp openvpn wireguard srv6 pbr 
qos flwspc mroute duplab bier amt nsh polka
platform   | p4emu/openssl/pcap
since      | 2022-02-02 18:17:56
for        | 00:08:12

noti#clear p4lang p4
2022-02-02 18:26:13
noti#
warning servP4lang.srvAccept:servP4lang.java:641 neighbor 127.0.0.1 up
noti#

regards,
cs