Hi all,

First, I'm wondering if this is the right place to ask. If not please tell me.

I'm new BIRD user, and here my situations:

I have Linux boxes (2.2.14) running as a router, have 3 interfaces: eth0, eth1 and eth2

I'd like to use BIRD to automaticaly tell others (machines) how to reach the network behind eth0.

My question is how do I make the BIRD and/or Kernel see the route via eth2 instead of eth1.

In orther words, I'd like to see the route:

10.12.12.0/24 via 10.218.28.244 dev eth2

NOT

10.12.12.0/24 via 38.218.28.244 dev eth1 <--- unfortunately, this is what I got!!!!!!! :-(

Please give advices.

Thank you very much.

Tom Nguyen

The followings are for your information.

The "ifconfig" gives:

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:00:B4:A6:50:A1
          inet addr:10.12.12.1 Bcast:10.12.12.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:405 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
          Interrupt:10 Base address:0xe400

eth1      Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:60:EF:20:4B:00
          inet addr:38.218.28.244 Bcast:38.218.28.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
          RX packets:3870 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:3090 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:54 txqueuelen:100
          Interrupt:12 Base address:0xe800

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3924 Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0

eth2       Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 26:DA:1C:F4:01:00
          inet addr:10.218.28.244 Bcast:10.255.255.255 Mask:255.0.0.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:16 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:810 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:100

My bird.conf looks like:

protocol direct {
interface "*";
}

protocol device {
scan time 10;
}

protocol static{
route 0.0.0.0/0 via 38.218.28.1;
}

protocol kernel {
        learn;
        persist;
        scan time 20;
        export all;
}

protocol ospf {
        area 0.0.0.0 {
                interface "*" {
                        type broadcast;
                        authentication simple;
                        password "tom";
                };
        };
        export all;

import all;

}