[Jool-list] Where are jool's sessions saved?

[Alberto Leiva]

> The API should not be
> affected

Actually, scratch that. If we're bound to go public, it'd probably be
a good idea to append a "jool_" prefix to the name of every exported
function.

On Fri, Mar 6, 2020 at 11:15 AM Alberto Leiva <ydahhrk at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Oh, by the way: I'm currently working on a complete rewrite of the
> Netlink code internals to patch issue #322. The API should not be
> affected, but you might want to wait until Jool 4.0.8 just to be sure.
>
> On Fri, Mar 6, 2020 at 11:13 AM Alberto Leiva <ydahhrk at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Where are jool's sessions saved?
> >
> > Nowhere, presently. They are kept in the RAM.
> >
> > > would it be of interest
> > > to integrate jool's session support into our new daemon?
> >
> > Well, Jool presently pushes sessions to anyone listening on its
> > Generic Netlink family if the `ss-enabled` global is true.
> > And a daemon can similarly get the full table by performing the same
> > Netlink request `jool session display` does under the hood.
> >
> > You can get access to these functions by importing Jool's Netlink
> > library (https://github.com/NICMx/Jool/tree/master/src/usr/nl).
> > Though, if you're using Debian, is presently exported privately into
> > the package. But this could be upgraded with some work, and I don't
> > see any objections for doing this.
> >
> > Here's the sample usage for querying the whole table:
> >
> > - Initialization:
> > https://github.com/NICMx/Jool/blob/master/src/usr/argp/wargp/session.c#L112-L114
> > - Request: https://github.com/NICMx/Jool/blob/master/src/usr/argp/wargp/session.c#L127-L128
> > (You want to do this three times if you want all three protocols.)
> > - Response handler:
> > https://github.com/NICMx/Jool/blob/master/src/usr/argp/wargp/session.c#L55-L100
> >
> > Am I answering your question?
> >
> > On Fri, Mar 6, 2020 at 10:54 AM Nico Schottelius
> > <nico.schottelius at ungleich.ch> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > Good morning list,
> > >
> > > we at ungleich are currently looking into writing a replacement for
> > > conntrackd that works in IPv6 only environments.
> > >
> > > The basic concept is "get sessions, multicast them, from time to time
> > > multicast the whole session table" - which plus/minus should be able to
> > > create a multi master setup in the end.
> > >
> > > My question and reason why I post this here is: would it be of interest
> > > to integrate jool's session support into our new daemon? From my point
> > > of view jool's session entries are very similar in nature and thus we
> > > could implement this as well - or even use joold as a basis.
> > >
> > > Looking forward to what you think about this.
> > >
> > > Best regards,
> > >
> > > Nico
> > >
> > >
> > >
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