Frontend ideas¶

conf daemon handle whole system configuration, serve system events and frontends requests.

Downstream¶

• Should be able to interact with ifconfig
• - - with DHCP server/client/relay
• - - with mpd
• - - with ipfw
• - - with hostapd
• - - with Switch API

Upstream¶

1. Web frontend
2. CLI frontend
3. SNMP
4. TR069
5. UPNP

conf protocol
Protocol used between conf and frontend's.¶

1. GET - get single value or subtree
2. PUT - set/create single value or subtree
3. DELETE - delete single value or subtree

h3.
GET
GET root.node.subnode?f=xml

<subnode value="1">
  <subsubnode>
    <item value="192.168.0.1/24"></item>
  </subsubnode>
</subnode>

GET root.node.subnode?f=json

{
  subnode = {
    value = "1",
    subsubnode = {
      item = {
        value = "192.168.0.1/24" 
      }
    }
  }
}