ferrix/docs/content/docs/reference/http-api.md

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Ferrix serves its HTTP interface on the address configured with http_endpoint. All endpoints are read-only and use the GET method. If a query parameter is invalid, the server returns status 400 (Bad Request) with a description of the error.

Caution

The HTTP interface does not require authentication. Bind it to a loopback address, or place it behind a reverse proxy that requires authentication.

Endpoints

Endpoint	Description
/	Redirects to /statusz.
/statusz	Status page.
/api/status	Router ID, AS number, uptime, and table sizes.
/api/config	The configuration that was read at startup.
/api/peers	Configured neighbors and their sessions.
/api/routes/local	Originated routes.
/api/routes/received	Received routes.
/api/routes/rejected	Rejected routes, by neighbor.
/api/rpki	RPKI cache, data, and data age.
/api/kernel	Kernel route installation state and interfaces.
/api/events	Session and route changes, as server-sent events.
/metricz	Prometheus metrics. See Metrics Reference.

Peers

/api/peers returns an array with one object for each configured neighbor:

{
  "name": "test-peer",
  "peer_addr": "127.0.0.1:64815",
  "peer_asn": 65001,
  "state": "Established",
  "direction": "inbound",
  "local_addr": "127.0.0.1:1790",
  "uptime_secs": 2,
  "four_octet_asn": true,
  "extended_next_hop": false,
  "address_families": ["IPv4 unicast", "IPv6 unicast"],
  "add_path_receive": [],
  "add_path_send": [],
  "routes": 1,
  "rejected_routes": 1,
  "held_routes": 0,
  "role": null,
  "role_confirmed": null,
  "last_error": null,
  "retry_at_unix": null
}

Field	Description
state	Session state: Established, Connecting, Backoff, or Idle.
direction	inbound if the neighbor initiated the connection, outbound otherwise.
routes	Number of the neighbor's routes in the routing table.
rejected_routes	Number of the neighbor's routes rejected by its import policy.
held_routes	Number of held routes: routes rejected for a reason that can change without a new UPDATE, such as RPKI validity or next hop resolution.
role_confirmed	Whether the neighbor advertised a BGP role that matches the configured role.
retry_at_unix	For a neighbor without a session, the time of the next connection attempt.

Received Routes

/api/routes/received returns received routes, one page at a time. Table 1 lists the query parameters.

Parameter	Description
prefix	Returns all routes for the prefix, best path first. Example: prefix=193.0.0.0/21.
address	Returns all routes for the prefixes that contain the address, most specific first. Example: address=193.0.0.1.
within	Returns the routes for the prefix and all more specific prefixes. Example: within=193.0.0.0/16.
peer	Returns only routes from the neighbor, identified by name or address.
best	If true, returns only the best path for each prefix.
limit	Specifies the approximate number of routes in a page. Default: 1000. Maximum: 100000.
after	Returns the page after the specified prefix. Use the next_after value of the previous page.
before	Returns the page before the specified prefix. Use the prev_before value of the next page.

A page contains only complete prefixes. It ends before the prefix whose routes would exceed limit, but always contains at least one prefix. Prefixes are sorted by address, with IPv4 prefixes first.

{
  "routes": [{
    "peer_name": "test-peer",
    "peer_addr": "127.0.0.1:64815",
    "peer_asn": 65001,
    "prefix": "203.0.113.0/24",
    "path_id": 0,
    "best": true,
    "rpki": null,
    "aspa": null,
    "summary": {
      "origin": "IGP",
      "as_path": [65001],
      "next_hop": "10.0.0.2",
      "med": null,
      "local_pref": null,
      "communities": ["65001:1"],
      "large_communities": []
    },
    "attributes": [ ... ]
  }],
  "next_after": null,
  "prev_before": null
}

Field	Description
path_id	ADD-PATH path identifier, or 0.
best	Whether the route is the best path for the prefix.
rpki, aspa	Route origin validation and ASPA verification state, if RPKI validation is configured.
attributes	All path attributes, as received.

Rejected Routes

/api/routes/rejected returns, for each neighbor with rejected routes, the number of rejected routes for each reason and the 200 most recent rejected routes. To return the records for one neighbor, add ?peer=NAME.

[{
  "peer": "test-peer",
  "peer_addr": "127.0.0.1",
  "total": 1,
  "by_reason": { "own AS in path": 1 },
  "recent": [{
    "prefix": "198.51.100.0/24",
    "path_id": 0,
    "reason": "own AS in path",
    "as_path": [65001, 64500],
    "at_unix": 1791020702
  }]
}]

Kernel

/api/kernel returns the state of kernel route installation:

{
  "enabled": true,
  "table": 254,
  "metric": 20,
  "synced": true,
  "installed": 0,
  "kept": 0,
  "unresolved": {},
  "refused": 0,
  "errors": 0,
  "last_error": null,
  "interfaces": [
    { "name": "eth0", "index": 2, "up": true,
      "addresses": ["192.168.5.15/24", "fe80::5055:55ff:fed4:2526/64"] }
  ]
}

Field	Description
synced	Whether the kernel routing table has been synchronized with the routing table since the daemon started.
installed	Number of routes installed.
kept	Number of routes from a previous run that are retained during startup.
unresolved	Number of prefixes whose active route is not installed, by reason.
refused	Number of prefixes whose active route the kernel rejected.
errors	Number of requests that the kernel rejected.

Events

/api/events is a stream of server-sent events. Each event has the name bgp and contains a JSON object. The type field identifies the event, as listed in Table 2.

type	Description
session_up	A session was established. The peer field has the format of /api/peers.
session_down	A session ended. Fields: peer_addr, peer_asn.
route_refresh_requested	A neighbor sent a ROUTE-REFRESH message.
local_announced, local_withdrawn	An originated route was advertised or withdrawn.
best_changed	The best path for a prefix changed. The route field contains the new best path.
best_withdrawn	A prefix no longer has a route.
lagged	The client did not read events quickly enough and missed events on stream. Reload the corresponding table.

The following command displays the event stream:

curl -sN 127.0.0.1:8080/api/events