<html><head></head><body><div dir="auto">In all cases, I'd appreciate a detailed description of the exact use case we are trying to solve. We may then come up with an appropriate solution, a workaround or a well-defined feature request.<br><br>Thank you for your understanding.<br>Maria</div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="auto">On 11 February 2024 09:30:50 GMT-05:00, Alexander Zubkov via Bird-users <bird-users@network.cz> wrote:</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre class="k9mail"><div dir="auto">Maybe not random, but some sorta hash will be useful here? And it<br>should not break the invariant mentioned by Maria. But for the hash we<br>still need some means to convert IP addresses to integer numbers,<br>because including IP into the hash seems to be reasonable.<br><br>On Sun, Feb 11, 2024 at 3:12 PM Max Tulyev <maxtul@netassist.ua> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;"><div dir="auto"><br> In our case no. We use the route reflector, so it should export the random route to other routers, not just use it by itself.<br><br> On Sun, 11 Feb 2024 08:55:02 -0500<br> "Darren O'Connor" <mellow.drifter@gmail.com> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #ad7fa8; padding-left: 1ex;"><div dir="auto"> Isn't this a problem for multipath/add path to fix?<br><br> On Sun, Feb 11, 2024, 08:43 Max Tulyev <maxtul@netassist.ua> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #8ae234; padding-left: 1ex;"><div dir="auto"> Yes, that's correct. I have same routes come from different routers, and I<br> want to spread the traffic between them, but if one router fails - keep it<br> working using anothers.<br><br> Okay, is it possible to get the variable as the result of the shell<br> script? Like<br><br> localpref = `cat prefpeer`<br><br> On Sun, 11 Feb 2024 18:04:18 +0800<br> Brandon Zhi <Brandon@huize.asia> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #fcaf3e; padding-left: 1ex;"><div dir="auto"> I think the only usage for random number is for loading balance.<br><br> *Brandon Zhi*<br> HUIZE LTD<br> www.huize.asia <<a href="https://huize.asia/">https://huize.asia/</a>>| www.ixp.su | Twitter<br><br> This e-mail and any attachments or any reproduction of this e-mail in<br> whatever manner are confidential and for the use of the addressee(s)<br></div></blockquote><div dir="auto">only.<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #fcaf3e; padding-left: 1ex;"><div dir="auto"> HUIZE LTD can’t take any liability and guarantee of the text of the email<br> message and virus.<br><br><br> Maria Matejka via Bird-users <bird-users@network.cz>于2024年2月11日<br></div></blockquote><div dir="auto">周日06:03写道：<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #fcaf3e; padding-left: 1ex;"><div dir="auto"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #e9b96e; padding-left: 1ex;"><div dir="auto"> Hello!<br><br> No, it's not possible and it makes the filters non-deterministic which<br> would break a critical invariant in BIRD's internal algorithms.<br><br> If you better clarify what you are trying to achieve, we may find<br></div></blockquote></blockquote><div dir="auto">another<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #fcaf3e; padding-left: 1ex;"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #e9b96e; padding-left: 1ex;"><div dir="auto">way for you to do it, or at least convert it to a viable feature<br></div></blockquote></blockquote><div dir="auto">request.<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #fcaf3e; padding-left: 1ex;"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #e9b96e; padding-left: 1ex;"><div dir="auto"><br> Thank you for your understanding<br> Maria<br> On 2024-02-10 20:56, Max Tulyev wrote:<br><br> Hi All,<br><br> is it possible to add a random number to some variable in the filter?<br><br> For example, like this:<br><br> filter myfilter<br> {<br> if net ~ 192.168.11.0/24 then preference = preference +<br></div></blockquote></blockquote><div dir="auto">random(10);<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #fcaf3e; padding-left: 1ex;"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #e9b96e; padding-left: 1ex;"><div dir="auto"><br> ...<br><br> --<br> Maria Matejka (she/her) | BIRD Team Leader | CZ.NIC, z.s.p.o.<br><br><br></div></blockquote></blockquote><div dir="auto"><br><br></div></blockquote></blockquote><div dir="auto"><br></div></blockquote><div dir="auto"><br></div></pre></blockquote></div><div dir="auto"><div class='k9mail-signature'>-- <br>Maria Matejka (she/her) | BIRD Team Leader | CZ.NIC, z.s.p.o.</div></div></body></html>