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| author | Donald Sharp <sharpd@cumulusnetworks.com> | 2019-04-09 22:29:06 -0400 |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2019-04-09 22:29:06 -0400 |
| commit | 6dc8dbf9bc64b45da40eef8c14c3e662bce237fb (patch) | |
| tree | 67a79185c0a39c35c92c4fcec134133061fd83f3 | |
| parent | a5f42f7dea6f1ac3472b94f801e30ffb5130ac48 (diff) | |
| parent | 560470b55207da4855c99d6a4829a43eb1f31f00 (diff) | |
Merge pull request #4115 from Wojtek242/wojtek242/doc-overview-fix
doc: replace old text with info about integrated configuration mode
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/user/overview.rst | 15 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/doc/user/overview.rst b/doc/user/overview.rst index e90b84b02b..6aa9462297 100644 --- a/doc/user/overview.rst +++ b/doc/user/overview.rst @@ -107,14 +107,13 @@ An illustration of the large scale architecture is given below. The multi-process architecture brings extensibility, modularity and -maintainability. At the same time it also brings many configuration files and -terminal interfaces. Each daemon has its own configuration file and terminal -interface. When you configure a static route, it must be done in the *Zebra* -configuration file. When you configure BGP network it must be done in the -*bgpd* configuration file. This can become difficult to manage. To resolve the -problem, FRR provides integrated user interface shell called *vtysh*. *vtysh* -connects to each daemon with UNIX domain socket and then works as a proxy for -user input. +maintainability. All of the FRR daemons can be managed through a single +integrated user interface shell called *vtysh*. *vtysh* connects to each +daemon through a UNIX domain socket and then works as a proxy for user input. +In addition to a unified frontend, *vtysh* also provides the ability to +configure all the daemons using a single configuration file through the +integrated configuration mode avoiding the problem of having to maintain a +separate configuration file for each daemon. Supported Platforms =================== |
