Re: [babel] Example configuration

[Mahesh Jethanandani <[e-mail]>]

Hi Toke,

> On Aug 8, 2019, at 7:04 AM, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <[e-mail]> wrote:
> 
> Why is this complexity needed? Couldn't it just be solved in the user
> interface, something like:
> 
> An input form contains these four entries:
>          [string               rw babel-interface-metric-algorithm;]
>          [boolean               rw babel-interface-split-horizon;]
>          [boolean               rw babel-interface-rtt;]
>          [boolean               rw babel-interface-unicast;]

While seemingly more complex, it is not. First of all, with your proposed schema,  if you need the same presets for multiple interfaces, you would be having to repeat them for multiple interfaces. Secondly, there is no way in YANG to define a set of presets, so there will be no drop down menu to select from. We were going to document the three or four well known presets. Thirdly, while these names and values may make sense to us, they may not to an operator, who might want to configure their own set of presets.

Cheers.

> 
> Underneath those four input boxes is another dropdown box (or whatever)
> with the presets ("wireless", "wired", "tunnel", etc). Selecting one of
> these just fills in the preset values into the four input boxes above
> it, which the user can then either just accept, or change individual
> values as he or she pleases.
> 
> This way, the information model doesn't need to know anything about the
> groups or preset names, it just carries the values...
> 
> -Toke

Mahesh Jethanandani
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