On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 03:40:58PM +0100, Job Snijders wrote:
Hi Fellow BIRD users,
It appears that BIRD does not fully appreciate RFC3021 style addresses on Ubuntu 15.04, when I start BIRD:
syslog:Nov 10 15:25:15 eunetworks-2 bird: KIF: Invalid broadcast address 255.255.255.255 for em1 syslog:Nov 10 15:25:15 eunetworks-2 bird: KIF: Invalid broadcast address 255.255.255.255 for p2p2.1003
BIRD works with RFC 3021 style addresses without problems, it is just confused by the fact that directed broadcast address for the iface is configured to 255.255.255.255, which is address reserved for link-local broadcast. BIRD should work without problems on these interfaces (unless you use broadcast like in RIPv1), it is just warning.
Should I configure the Linux side of things differently or is this something that needs resolving in BIRD itself?
IMHO reasonable setting would be to not set directed broadcast address on such interfaces. Link-local broadcast address works for any interfaces and need not be configured. -- 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."