overriding static routes in FreeBSD

[Alexander Zubkov]

Oh, looks like FreeBSD does not have metric for the routes. So yes, it
is not the possibility then.

On Tue, Jun 15, 2021 at 3:24 PM Ondrej Zajicek <santiago at crfreenet.org> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jun 15, 2021 at 02:50:09PM +0200, Alexander Zubkov wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I think it is intentional so that bird should not meddle with "foreign"
> > routes. In Linux, for example, it uses it's own protocol label and
> > does not touch other routes. It can import them, but does not change them.
>
> Hi
>
> Yes, that is true.
>
>
> > In your situation, I think the optimal solution is to have your
> > original default routes with some high metric, so that bird's default
> > should override it later. In that case it will not need to replace
> > routes it does not own, because usually you can have routes with the
> > same prefix but different metrics simultaneousely in your routing
> > table.
>
>
> That works in Linux, but i do not think it works in FreeBSD. AFAIK there
> is only one route per network there.
>
> Using -proto1 -nostatic for route is an easy way how to workaround this
> issue on BSD.
>
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