bird does not speak OSPF on a GRE tunnel interface

Alexander Velkov alvel85 at googlemail.com
Tue Jun 28 13:56:15 CEST 2016


Hi Ondrej,

> Yes, it does that. But you still have to specify which interfaces it is
> allowed to use for specific protocols. You can use wildcards (e.g.
> "eth*") instead of specific interfaces.

In quagga it is OK to specify a network only, quagga automatically detects
when the interfaces' IP address is in the configured range.
This is quite handy when having dynamic interface configurations, because
you don't need to alter the quagga config or care how the interface is
called.

> List of interfaces and its addresses/prefixes.

OK.

Thanks,
Alex

On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 12:19 PM, Ondrej Zajicek <santiago at crfreenet.org>
wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 03:26:41PM +0200, Alexander Velkov wrote:
> > Hi Ondrej,
> >
> > Thanks for you answer! I did exactly this and bird finally became more
> > 'chatty' :).
> > This is very nice, although I expected that bird is "sensing" the state
> of
> > the interfaces (e.g. through the device/direct protocols).
>
> Yes, it does that. But you still have to specify which interfaces it is
> allowed to use for specific protocols. You can use wildcards (e.g.
> "eth*") instead of specific interfaces.
>
> > What is "scanned" actually by the 'device' protocol ?
>
> List of interfaces and its addresses/prefixes.
>
> --
> Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo
>
> Ondrej 'Santiago' Zajicek (email: santiago at crfreenet.org)
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