Hello everyone, I am reopening the subject as I am facing the same issue that was described here. I add routes in Linux: interface bond0.2 has no ip address assigned, by design. # ip route add 10.0.2.0/24 dev bond0.2 scope link # ip r a 192.168.0.1 via 10.0.2.2 dev bond0.2 How can I import the second route to Bird, to be able to announce it via BGP ? I am working on latest stable (1.6.3). Regards, On 10/05/17 11:14 AM, Alexander Demenshin wrote:
On 2017-05-10 13:16, Ondrej Zajicek wrote:
But such design would bring plenty of issues w.r.t. multiple routing tables - may next hops resolve just in the same routing table or also in another routing table?
Well, at least in Linux device/direct routes may exist in any table, so where is the difference between device/direct routes and arbitrary next-hop route?
How I would implement this:
- Try to find if next-hop is routable via any of existing devices (including explicitly routed networks - as in my case); - If it is routable (which also means that device has to be up), install it (so it can be exported to the kernel tables).
What if the device route is available, but not exported to kernel?
You mean if it is configured but not exported? Then it should be ignored, obviously, though this could happen only in few cases: - device does not exists (yet) - device is not up (kernel will not accept any routes in this case) - protocol is disabled
If no kernel export is configured at all then the route does not make any sense anyway.
Static onlink routes is something that probably could be implemented and it is a good idea.
This could solve one of the most typical scenarios - keep static (local) routes up for specified set of devices/gateways - once they become available.
What is interesting, quagga behaves exactly in the same way as bird, and only cisco (well, may be other routers too) does what is (logically) expected - and it allows Linux-like onlink routes, which specify both device and gateway address, and those routes are linked to device state (i.e. exported and used when device is active).
--- Best regards, Alexander.
-- Damien Clabaut R&D vRouter ovh.qc.ca