Documentation typo in filter example (bird-2.17.1.html#filters)

Evgeniy Gaydarenko gaydarenko at mail.ru
Mon Mar 16 13:55:30 CET 2026


Hello,

I noticed a small typo in the HTML documentation for BIRD 2.17.1, in the Filters section:

https://bird.nic.cz/doc/bird-2.17.1.html#filters

In the example filter *not_too_far*, the comparison uses the HTML entity *&g* t instead of the literal *>* character. If you copy the example as-is into a BIRD configuration file, the line

*if rip_metric &gt 10 then*

causes a “Unknown character” error when BIRD parses the configuration. Replacing &gt with > fixes the problem:

*if rip_metric > 10 then*

It would be helpful if the documentation could be updated so the example uses the correct > character, to avoid confusing users who copy the example directly.

Best regards,
Evgeniy Gaydarenko
gaydarenko at mail.ru
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