Incomprehensible error concerning identical babel config for bird and bird6 (bird-v1.6.4 on ubuntu18.04.1)

Maria Jan Matějka jan.matejka at nic.cz
Tue Nov 13 21:29:50 CET 2018


On November 13, 2018 8:54:54 PM GMT+01:00, Christoffer Hansen <netravnen at gmail.com> wrote:
> Please ignore.
> 
> On 13/11/2018 20:42, Christoffer Hansen wrote:
> > Any educated guesses as to what might be causing this?
> 
> Missed the first part of the official 1.6.x documentation stating:
> """
> While the Babel protocol is dual stack (i.e., can carry both IPv4 and
> IPv6 routes over the same IPv6 transport), BIRD presently implements
> only the IPv6 subset of the protocol. No Babel extensions are
> implemented, but the BIRD implementation can coexist with
> implementations using the extensions (and will just ignore extension
> messages).
> """
> 
> Ups. :(
> 
> /Christoffer

Anyway, in version 2 you may use the dual stack babel protocol. Feel free to try it and report any bug please.

Maria



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