Fib - Route Programming

Introduction

Fib is responsible for programming the actual forwarding tables in hardware on the local node. Open/R defines the RPC interface, which is the Thrift Service defined inside Platform.thrift. Underlying platform is expected to implement this. All forwarding table entries are programmed via this thrift interface.

Inter Module Communication

Fib Intermodule Communication

  • [Producer] ReplicateQueue<thrift::RouteDatabaseDelta>: stream routeDbDelta to subscribers who want to receive updates for routes to be programmed.

  • [Consumer] RQueue<thrift::DecisionRouteUpdate>: receive real-time updates from Decision and program update via thrift client call.

Operations

For Data Types and Format, check out

For Thrift Interface, check out

Deep Dive

Fib programs routes via external FibAgent (HW specific, implements FibService) over thrift. Open/R offers FibService implementation for native routing with Linux. The binary is named as platform_linux and code is located at openr/platform/ directory. For more detals, see Platform.md

Thrift port to communicate with underlying platform can be configured via fib_port inside if/OpenrConfig.thrift