bird and OSPF on p2p

Henrique de Moraes Holschuh hmh at hmh.eng.br
Thu Aug 30 13:09:33 CEST 2012


On Thu, 30 Aug 2012, Ondrej Zajicek wrote:
> Therefore, i think about putting local IP address for ptp links with ptp
> addresses (i.e. merging the patch i sent before). Although it could be
> argued that it is contrary to RFC 2328 12.4.1 [*], the ifindex value
> is useless and using local IP addres would fix compatibility with Quagga
> and Mikrotik (which seems to have the same problem).
> 
> Any comments?

> [*] "For unnumbered point-to-point links, the Link Data field should be
> set to the unnumbered interface's MIB-II [Ref8] ifIndex value."

It can be conditional on a configurable option, that should provide maximum
forward compatibility.  I have no idea about Mikrotik, but we could work
with quagga to get it fixed there as well...

What does Cisco and Juniper boxes do?

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  Henrique Holschuh



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