[pve-devel] [PATCH proxmox-ve-rs 01/17] add proxmox-network-types crate

[Thomas Lamprecht]

Am 28.03.25 um 18:12 schrieb Gabriel Goller:
> This is a common crate that is gonna be reused between
> proxmox-ve-config, proxmox-frr and proxmox-perl-rs. It holds different
> networking primitives, such as Ipv4/Ipv6-Cidr, NET and e.g.
> HelloInterval (openfabric attribute) types. The decision for creating
> this crate is two-fold:
> 
> - we didn't want to import Ipv4Cidr (& Co) from
>   proxmox-ve-config/firewall
> - having proxmox-frr rely on proxmox-ve-config would be weird and
>   wouldn't make proxmox-frr a 'real' standalone FRR-types crate.
> 
> By moving the Ipv4Cidr (& Co) types here, we also need to update the
> proxmox-firewall crate.

I'm fine with a dedicated crate, but I'm wondering if either this is
the wrong repo and it should live in the general proxmox workspace or
if it should be named `proxmox-ve-network-types`.

Another alternative might be to split out the generic stuff – hostname
and CIDR – to a generic crate – existing or new – in proxmox workspace
and then create a proxmox-sdn-types one – probably also in the proxmox
workspace for easier re-use in clients.
Splitting the types that are quite SDN specific and those that are
rather generic networking types might feel a bit more logical if one
looks outside the SDN side of networking use cases.