bird 2.0.4 autodetects /30 as ptp

Ondrej Zajicek santiago at crfreenet.org
Thu Mar 28 02:44:13 CET 2019


On Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 07:49:56AM +0000, Kenth Eriksson wrote:
> I can see the rationale of saying that a /30 network can run with OSPF
> interfaces in ptp mode since there are only 2 hosts on it. That said, I
> *believe* the Cisco routers defaults to broadcast mode for a /30 which
> would cause some interop issues with the default settings. I don't know
> the default values for other vendors. 
> 
> Is it possible to change the autodetect using a function in the bird
> configuration file? E.g. if the prefix length of the interface is 31 or
> 32 then use ptp mode else use broadcast mode.

No, you would have to edit the source code (function ospf_iface_classify_()
in proto/ospf/iface.c).

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