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authorDonald Sharp <sharpd@cumulusnetworks.com>2019-05-10 02:06:13 +0200
committerDonald Sharp <sharpd@cumulusnetworks.com>2019-05-24 01:35:42 +0200
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zebra: Add kernel level graceful restart
<Initial Code from Praveen Chaudhary> Add the a `--graceful_restart X` flag to zebra start that now creates a timer that pops in X seconds and will go through and remove all routes that are older than startup. If graceful_restart is not specified then we will just pop a timer that cleans everything up immediately. Signed-off-by: Praveen Chaudhary <pchaudhary@linkedin.com> Signed-off-by: Donald Sharp <sharpd@cumulusnetworks.com>
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@@ -27,6 +27,13 @@ Besides the common invocation options (:ref:`common-invocation-options`), the
When zebra starts up, don't delete old self inserted routes.
+.. option:: -K TIME, --graceful_restart TIME
+
+ If this option is specified, the graceful restart time is TIME seconds.
+ Zebra, when started, will read in routes. Those routes that Zebra
+ identifies that it was the originator of will be swept in TIME seconds.
+ If no time is specified then we will sweep those routes immediately.
+
.. option:: -r, --retain
When program terminates, do not flush routes installed by *zebra* from the