Hi Neale,

> this adds another plugin that acts as a netlink listener and invokes VPP
> internal APIs (i.e. directly calls e.g. FIB and ip-neighbour) to add state
> to VPP.
[...]
> Disadvantages:
> 1.    Not using VPP's binary API means you do not get the tracing
> function, which in turn means you do not get the replay function. These
> are both exceptionally useful field debugging tools.

Maybe a silly idea, but I guess you could always call the APIs from the plugin 
instead of direct function calls, a bit like RPC to main thread? That still 
means a single process to operate but you can use API replay.

ben
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