how does bird choose primary ip address for ospf?

Ondrej Zajicek santiago at crfreenet.org
Tue Jun 30 14:19:23 CEST 2009


On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 12:43:15PM +0200, Martin Kraus wrote:
> Hi. I've just ran into a little problem with bird 1.1.0, but it just might be
> a problem with linux. I'm setting ip addresses on interfaces using ifupdown
> and /etc/network/interfaces where public ip address gets set up using builtin
> configuration parameters(address/netmask) and private ip address(for switches
> etc.) gets set up using the "up /sbin/ip address add ...." command. 
> 
> I've never had any problems using this setup, since it first sets the public
> ip address, which ospf uses, and then sets the private prefix, which just gets
> propagated.

Another change is that 'secondary' address ranges are now by default propagated
as stub networks (You can change it using 'stubnet' option). If you propagated
that address through OSPF, you probably exported it to OSPF as external route,
which is not needed now.

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