For example, a route reflector's job is to reflect routes between its client peers. Often a route reflector is not on the data path itself, and so does not need to program those routes into its own box's kernel. On Fri, Mar 20, 2020 at 9:50 AM Alexander Zubkov <green@qrator.net> wrote:

Hi,

It depends on what you are trying to achieve. Of course bird can function without an instance of the kernel protocol. But in that case it can not push any routes into the routing table of your os. If you need those routes only to spread them for some other reasons then it is probable that you do not need to use the kernel protocol.

On Fri, Mar 20, 2020 at 9:07 AM Irene Lalioti <irene.lalioti@restena.lu> wrote:

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Hello guys!

I would like to ask you what would you think the better practice would be: Can we remove totally the kernel protocol?

I thought no but we tested it and it works. Now we have on our linuxbox set the static routes outside bird daemon, where we specify that the caches we have are behind the border routers.

Would it be safe to totally remove this from the system configs and only use the Direct protocol as we said yesterday, and rely on the direct protocol that it learns the connected network and the multihop of the caches which reside behind the border routers?

Thanks a lot!!

Irene

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Many thanks for the clarifications! Have a good day! Irene On 20/03/2020 12:02, Ondrej Zajicek wrote:

On Fri, Mar 20, 2020 at 09:03:34AM +0100, Irene Lalioti wrote:

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Hello guys!

I would like to ask you what would you think the better practice would be: Can we remove totally the kernel protocol?

I thought no but we tested it and it works. Now we have on our linuxbox set the static routes outside bird daemon, where we specify that the caches we have are behind the border routers. Hi

Depends on your setup. If you are running BIRD as a route server, then yes, it is usual to run it without the kernel protocol.

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