BIRD <-> Quagga OSPF Compatibility

Alex Bligh alex at alex.org.uk
Wed Nov 2 14:22:04 CET 2011



--On 2 November 2011 14:08:29 +0100 Joakim Tjernlund 
<joakim.tjernlund at transmode.se> wrote:

>> I am guessing this might be one of the issues affecting us (*). We
>> can't do numbering as we have large numbers of /32s as interface
>> routes. Numbering these would use either 2 or 4 times the address
>> space which is not acceptable.
>
> What if you forcefully remove the IA_PEER flag for your ppp interfaces?
> Then an IP address is send instead of ifIndex in the router LSA. Could be
> an useful addition to bird.

They are unnumbered veth interfaces (i.e. point to point ethernet
tunnel). I'm not sure I can manipulate IA_PEER.

-- 
Alex Bligh



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