[netmagis] Re: Problem to translate multi-view in Netmagis etc

  • From: Pierre DAVID <pdagog@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: netmagis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2012 09:34:18 +0200

On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 06:46:57PM +0200, Julien Soula wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 11:11:29AM +0200, Pierre DAVID wrote:
> > 
> > The fact that IP addresses are associated with one and only one
> > host is a fundamental design assumption of Netmagis, which garantees
> > consistency of network information.
> 
> so we tried to integrate bind view without violating this
> assumption. We added a new concept - vlink - (new table in BD) which
> are used to "duplicate" the IP address in a different view.
>

Many thanks for sharing your patch with the list.

> 
> PS: I've heard that multi-view was planned in future release. Great
> news ! I've not yet taken a look to the code.
> 

You can watch the "views" branch in the github repository.

If you don't know where to begin, doc/netmagis/tables.fig is a good
starting point (file readable with the xfig drawing program).

Pierre

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