Hello all, we do virtual hosting, and we provide routeable /32 addresses to the guests. Kernel routes on the KVM host are link routes that look like this: 1.0.0.113 dev pub020304050612 proto static They are picked up by bird and exported to the core router. When we launch multiple guests with the same address on multiple hosts, this results in an ECMP route on the core router, providing load balancing. This all works fine until we launch more than one guest with the same address on _one_ host. We create kernel multipath route that looks like this: 1.0.0.115 proto static metric 10 nexthop dev pub020304050612 weight 1 nexthop dev pub020304050616 weight 1 Note that there is no "via" address in the hop configulations! This actually works, i.e. connections originating from the host are balanced between those guests. But bird refuses to pick up such route because of the code here: https://gitlab.labs.nic.cz/labs/bird/blob/master/sysdep/linux/netlink.c#L528 Questions: 1. What was the justification for disallowing gateway-less multipath routes? Would it make sense to allow them (in the mainstream code)? 2. Would it be sufficient to simply drop the check for the presence of the gateway address in the message, and return `first` even if gateway address was not present? Thank you, Eugene