source address for routes installed in routing table (on linux)

[Arkadiusz Miskiewicz]

Hello,

bird installs routes in kernel table without any source address, so for all 
connections initiated at that machine kernel chooses address from interface.

I'm looking for a sane way to get routes installed with specific source 
address - basically an equivalent of "ip r a x.y.z.q/prefix via nexthop dev 
ethX src MYIP" command.

I don't see such functionality in bird (so consider this to be a feature 
request).

From irc I see that there are hacky way to get archieve that but these are 
just hacky (adding ipv4 address with scope link or preferred_lft 0 for ipv6).

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Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz        PLD/Linux Team
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