Hi all. I've some questions regarding the configuration of bird. 1. I have a box with lots of (virtual) network interfaces. All those interfaces use the eth-namespace (and I can not change this unfortunately). I want bird to use eth0 with RIP in broadcast mode and to exclude every other interface which name matches "eth*". Would this following be right for that purpose? protocol rip { [...] interface "eth0" { mode broadcast; }; interface "eth*" { quiet; }; [...] } 2. How do I tell bird not to accept and not to send any RIP requests/updates from/to given interfaces? If I understood the documentation correctly, "quiet" tells not to send anything (but to receive) and "nolisten" tells not to listen (but to send) to an interface. Is there a mode that permits both? 3. I'm using some vtun connection between hosts in the local network. Vtun is a package that sets up virtual ip tunnels between two hosts and is able to shape traffic and to encrypt the tunnel data for each connection seperatly (for more information: vtun.sourceforge.net). I use the tun-devices for the connections between the hosts, which is part of the vtun package. When I try to tell bird to broadcast RIP packages using one of the tun devices in a system, it tells the following: Apr 16 19:38:38 (none) daemon.err bird: rip1: rip is not defined over unnumbered links Apr 16 19:38:38 (none) daemon.warn bird: sk_open: bind: Cannot assign requested address Apr 16 19:38:38 (none) daemon.warn bird: rip1: could not listen on tun1 birdctl's "show interfaces" command shows the following data: bird> show interfaces lo up (index=1) MultiAccess AdminUp LinkUp Loopback Ignored MTU=3924 127.0.0.1/8 (Primary, broadcast 127.255.255.255, scope host) eth0 up (index=2) MultiAccess Broadcast Multicast AdminUp LinkUp MTU=1500 192.168.2.102/24 (Primary, broadcast 192.168.2.255, scope site) eth1 up (index=3) MultiAccess Broadcast Multicast AdminUp LinkUp MTU=1500 10.0.0.102/24 (Primary, broadcast 10.0.0.255, scope site) tun1 up (index=4) PtP Multicast AdminUp LinkUp MTU=1500 10.255.255.251/32 (Primary, broadcast 10.255.255.252, opposite 10.255.255.252, scope site, unnumbered) In addition, this is what ifconfig says: # ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:E0:4C:88:00:12 inet addr:192.168.2.102 Bcast:192.168.2.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:48 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:63 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:2 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 Interrupt:11 Base address:0xe000 eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:02:2D:00:D5:E3 inet addr:10.0.0.102 Bcast:10.0.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:46 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:49 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 Interrupt:5 Base address:0x100 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 tun1 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol inet addr:10.255.255.251 P-t-P:10.255.255.252 Mask:255.255.255.255 UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:2 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:2 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:10 What is meant by "unnumbered" (as told by bird itself and birdctl)? What can be done to set tun1 to "numbered" or to force bird to use the tun-devices for sharing routes with the other hosts? Bye, Mike -- ------------------------------------ CompuLAN Europe GmbH Development - Wireless Solutions ------------------------------------