msuriar/fabler

Simple C program for advertising routing information via RIP based on the success of a healthcheck command.

fabler's Issues

Timeouts should fail too.

If the test command takes too long, then it should have its process group killed, and failure reported.

You can wait with SIGCHLD, and create progress groups with setpgrp().

Proper command line parsing

Look in to how to do proper command line parsing in C. Stuff that should be a command line argument:

• Advertise interval
• Command timeout
• Prefix
• Next hop (maybe; if this is being run on a different machine to the service being offered, might be the wrong thing to be using.)
• Min successes (number of consecutive successes before starting advertising)
• Min failures (number of consecutive failures before advertising at max metric)

BGP support

Addition of BGP support to this would be fantastic. Perhaps with the ability to announce/withdraw, or change the community attribute of the annoucement on success/failure.

Help text is confusing.

Your program shouldn't require reading the source to figure out how to use the program.

MD5 authentication

Should probably support MD5 auth as per RFC 2453.