BIRD removing BGP routes from other daemon - FreeBSD

Cassiano Peixoto peixotocassiano at gmail.com
Fri Jul 3 01:30:01 CEST 2015


Hi Ondrej,

Thanks for your help. I've changed as you suggested
on sysdep/bsd/krt-sock.c to PROTO2 and i worked fine.

I'd would like know what kind of problem i would have if i keep this change
on my bird. Can i run into some issues with other protocols or systems?

Thanks.

On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 5:42 AM, Ondrej Zajicek <santiago at crfreenet.org>
wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 05:14:41PM -0300, Cassiano Peixoto wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have a particular scenario where my BGP runs with OpenBGP and I can not
> > change it right now.
> >
> > However I want BIRD to use OSPF and BFD. While BIRD works perfectly,
> better
> > than OpenOSPF for my scenario, when I start it, it completely removes all
> > routes installed by OpenBGP.
>
> Hello
>
> On BSD systems, BIRD uses PROTO1 route flag to identify 'its' routes. If
> OpenBGP uses the same flag, then they mix-up their routes. Currently
> there is no option in BIRD to change it to use PROTO2 or PROTO3 flag [*],
> i don't know about OpenBGP. I wonder if there is a better way to
> distinguish route ownership in BSD systems (like there is u8 rtm_protocol
> field in Linux).
>
>
> [*] Could be changed in the source code on these lines in
> sysdep/bsd/krt-sock.c:
>
> msg.rtm.rtm_flags = RTF_UP | RTF_PROTO1;
> ...
> u32 self_mask = RTF_PROTO1;
>
>
> --
> Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo
>
> Ondrej 'Santiago' Zajicek (email: santiago at crfreenet.org)
> OpenPGP encrypted e-mails preferred (KeyID 0x11DEADC3, wwwkeys.pgp.net)
> "To err is human -- to blame it on a computer is even more so."
>
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