On Fri, Sep 01, 2017 at 11:59:19AM +0200, Vincent Bernat wrote:
We have lots of kit (e.g. https://www.arista.com/en/products/7280r-series) that comes with:
Linux labtest 3.4.43.Ar-3964936.4173F #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Dec 19 14:31:21 PST 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
And which is impossible for us to upgrade to newer kernel versions. If bird 2.0 will require Linux >= 4.11 for IPv6 multipath, then upgrading to bird 2.0 would not be an option for us.
I agree with you. Currently, there is no distro with a 4.11+ kernel (Ubuntu LTS is 4.4, Debian is 4.9, CentOS is 3.13). It seems a bit early to require such a recent kernel.
Well, that was a reason why i was reluctant for long to include IPv6 multipath support in BIRD, hoping that Kernel people fix their API. That happened about half year after i finally gave up. OK, so we will likely postpone the transition. Hopefully our plan to ditch 2.4.x kernel workarounds in BIRD 2.0 will meet less resistance. ;-) -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Ondrej 'Santiago' Zajicek (email: santiago@crfreenet.org) OpenPGP encrypted e-mails preferred (KeyID 0x11DEADC3, wwwkeys.pgp.net) "To err is human -- to blame it on a computer is even more so."