RE: Transaction support in Netconf

["David B Harrington" <dbharrington@comcast.net>]

Hi,

I think it would be helpful to other implementors, and to protocol
designers, to discuss lessons learned during implementation on the
list.

David Harrington
dbharrington@comcast.net 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-netconf@ops.ietf.org 
> [mailto:owner-netconf@ops.ietf.org] On Behalf Of Martin Bjorklund
> Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2005 7:51 AM
> To: j.schoenwaelder@iu-bremen.de
> Cc: balazs.lengyel@ericsson.com; netconf@ops.ietf.org
> Subject: Re: Transaction support in Netconf
> 
> Juergen Schoenwaelder <j.schoenwaelder@iu-bremen.de> wrote:
> > Smart implementations may want to try to find a least disruptive
> > transition from the current running configuration to the desired
new
> > configuration. So calculating the delta on the device might
actually
> > be a feature as this decouples the transition logic from 
> the manager's
> > instruction how to change the configuration. In other words, even
if
> > you ship a large edit config, it might internally make 
> sense to create
> > a temporary candidate configuration which is then committed (and
you
> > then calculate a least disruptive transition plan).
> > 
> > But note that I am talking "theory" here since I have not written
my
> > own netconf implementation. But if I were to do it, I would 
> try to do
> > things as outlined above. Perhaps others who have been working on
> > implementations can say how they actually deal with this.
> 
> We handle this in the way you describe, both for edit-config and
> copy-config.  But I guess it's better to discuss details off-line.
> 
> 
> /martin
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