Anyone used 'missing lladdr' option?

Ondrej Zajicek santiago at crfreenet.org
Thu Aug 8 15:20:20 CEST 2019


On Tue, Aug 06, 2019 at 10:10:58AM +0200, Milan Strakoš wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> we had problem with IPv6 prefixes exchanged from HP (or Huawei) router to
> linux router (BIRD) through IPv6 BGP RR (BIRD). And setting "missing lladdr
> ignore;" on the BGP RR on peer towards linux routers solved our problem.
> Otherwise the prefixes from HP/Huaweiu were not forwarded. And I didn't find
> how to configure HP/Huawei to fill lladdr in BGP updates.

This is case that would be OK as if we removed the option then we would
left the behavior on 'ignore'. But it makes me to realize that the
current default is 'drop' (for non-RS), so people who really need 'drop'
instead of 'ignore' likely do not know about it.

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Ondrej 'Santiago' Zajicek (email: santiago at crfreenet.org)
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