On Sun, May 06, 2012 at 06:21:11PM +0200, Gustavo Ponza wrote:
Hi everyone, developers and users,
having played (for the *first* time) the last three months with the 'quagga' suite, incidentally, just some days ago, I discovered the BIRD program and want to try it... the router compiled and run OK on my (production) 2.6.21 linux kernel platform. So, since then, I installed it and now I'm learning and practicing for the best working configuration, focused for now, only on the 'ospf' environment in which I'm concerned.
Since I experienced (at least it is for me) that the newest quagga releases doesn't work on my alternate 2.4 linux platform (kernel 2.4.23), I tried the BIRD on that and discovered it run OK... the ospf routing processes seem regular without any problems, but:
Yes, Linux 2.4 should work in BIRD. But it is not regularly tested.
1) at launch of bird appears on console the warning: 'bird: Monotonic timer is missing'
That is because Linux 2.4 does not have monotonic timer. In that case we use standard timer and have workarounds for detecting time jumps (e.g. when NTP get synchronized) so it should work even in that case.
furthermore, the *syslog* reports (from 'startup' to 'shutdown') the following lines:
May 6 08:25:31 ir0rm-7 bird: Monotonic timer is missing May 6 08:25:44 ir0rm-7 bird: Netlink: File exists May 6 08:26:33 ir0rm-7 last message repeated 3 times
See FAQ for this warning message (Netlink: File exists): https://git.nic.cz/redmine/projects/bird/wiki/FAQ
are they due to my systems or to my missed/wrong setups; or instead a suddenly re-appearing of such a warnings/(failure for 2.4?) messages?
I do not see any unexpected warnings. Probably it is sufficient to test whether new route appears in kernel table and whether disappears when it is removed. -- 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."