ospf,kernel and ECMP

Ondrej Zajicek santiago at crfreenet.org
Thu Aug 1 16:02:08 CEST 2013


On Thu, Aug 01, 2013 at 04:01:12PM +0300, Volodymyr Samodid wrote:

>> Hi
>>
>> Just enable this option and OSPF will generate ECMP routes
>> and these routes will be exported to the kernel table.
>>
>> Also note that BIRD kernel support for ECMP is just for Linux/IPv4.
>>
> I have enabled this option. This is my config for r0
>
> ...
>
> It does not work.

You are right, i checked it and ECMP is implemented just for intra-area
OSPF routes, not for inter-area or external routes - these just inherit
the next-hops from (possibly ECMP) internal route to the boundary router
(ABR or ASBR).

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