<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Hello fellow Bird users,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I’ve run into a strange issue trying to subnet a /24 into a series of smaller /27 and /28’s and have the routed via BGP.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I currently do the following; route 10.10.10.0/24 reject;</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">However if I don’t bring the interface up as a /24 (i.e. ifconfig eth0:10 10.10.10.10 netmask 255.255.255.0 up) I am unable to get the route explored when I run show route - the interface needs to be online in order for “show route” to show the import as a unreachable.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I can kinda make this work through a series of strange static routes, but this seems incorrect. Can anyone suggest a better way to ensure my /24 is announced regardless so that I can then subnet it down for the purpose of serving over a VPN the /28’s and /27’s?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Hopefully that question makes sense and isn’t too much nonsense.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks for you help and comments!</div><div class="">Mike</div><br class=""><div class="">
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