Flag/config changes and internals

v0.2.17

capricious flag/config file changes

Migrated common code from main to library

v0.2.16

code moved to library portion from main

Bumped cue library version to fix eBGP empty AS_PATH bug

v0.2.15

bumper cur library version to fix eBGP empty AS_PATH bug

Logging hot reload

Logging code re-written. Now able to reload logging config on the fly - previously a full restart was required.

Command channel

Added a UNIX domain socket option (-C) to allow sending commands to the running daemon - used to reattach XDP code to interfaces initially

Support for changing the maximum number of flows

v0.2.11

support for changing max number of flows

Loopback BGP option

Enables the use of a routing daemon (eg. BIRD) on the load balancer server, advertising VIPs to it on 127.0.0.1

See docs/bgp.md for more details.

Prometheus stats issue fixed

Prometheus stats were showing the total stats instead of individual values for each backend

Check for VLAN membership

Added a check to ensure that backend IPs are contained in a VLAN if VLANs are used - to avoid blackholing traffic

Logging

v0.2.6

logging and code refactoring