Re: [netmod] Augmenting an unimplemented module

Juergen Schoenwaelder <j.schoenwaelder@jacobs-university.de> Wed, 08 February 2017 21:36 UTC

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On Wed, Feb 08, 2017 at 04:04:11PM -0500, Lou Berger wrote:
> 
> I defer to Chris on us of RPCs in general, but an interesting use case
> that is supported with RPCs is tag modification in RO modules.
>

No, you are simply hiding configuration data behind RPCs. Somewhere
the tags need to be stored.

/js

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