Hi. 2: Realms described in iproute2 documentation http://www.linuxgrill.com/iproute2-toc.html. It can be usefull with iptables or ip rule or some thing else ... For example I use realms to limit my city traffic and to find IP in a blocks of city nets: root@warm:~# ip ro sh realm tpu 195.208.161.88/30 via 217.29.80.1 dev eth0 proto bird realm tpu 195.208.161.116/30 via 217.29.80.1 dev eth0 proto bird realm tpu 195.208.172.0/24 via 217.29.80.1 dev eth0 proto bird realm tpu 217.106.172.0/23 via 217.29.80.1 dev eth0 proto bird realm tpu 195.208.160.0/19 via 217.29.80.1 dev eth0 proto bird realm tpu or root@warm:~# ip ro get 217.29.86.99 217.29.86.99 via 217.29.80.77 dev eth0 src 217.29.80.149 realm StackNew cache mtu 1500 advmss 1460 I have patch writen by my friend but he does not support it any more ... Bird was not configured becouse I had wrong installation of 2.6.5 kernel headers, sorry :-). Bird was not compiled becouse I had upgradedt to very new bison (1.8...), after downgrade all is fun. I have not tried to "autoconf" bird with a new bison yet Last time I have compiled bird saccessafuly with the origin ./configure 2.6.5 kernel and bison 1.35(old bison in slackware) -----Original Message----- From: Martin Mares [mailto:mj@ucw.cz] Sent: Friday, April 16, 2004 6:24 PM To: Zharovtsev, Anton Cc: bird-users@bird.network.cz Subject: Re: Status of bird project Hello!

1. Is a project alive ? Gated is dead, zebra is unstable (IMHO - I don't like zebra), quagga is strange fork from zebra. Is only bird

for linux and its several routing tables support.

BIRD is alive, but very, very slowly, since all people of the original BIRD team are currently working on other things which have turned out to be very successful time eaters.

2. Are the any plans to include realms support ? (I have a patch from my friend, but friend is lazy and he has stoped developing this patch)

Well, what type of realms have you exactly in mind?

3. Bird does not configure whith a linux-2.6.x kernel headers (I try 2.6.4 and 2.6.5 but it seems that all 2.6.x hase the same result)

checking protocols... ok checking for linux/rtnetlink.h... no configure: error: Appropriate version of Linux kernel headers not found.

How to fix this ? linux/rtnetlink.h is in its place ...

This should be pretty easy to fix. I'll look at it soon (it's a bit problematic now as I've moved to Berlin for 6 weeks and the things haven't settled here yet).

I have tried to generate a new configure, but I could not. Usualy some

projects have a aoutogen.sh whitch deals whith auto-tools and other prepearing things ...

BIRD doesn't use automake nor any other fancy stuff, so running "autoconf" should be enough.

4. After full upgrade my Slackware to Slackware-current bird does not compile even whith 2.4.25 kernel headers

m4 -P ../../conf/gen_parser.m4 ../../conf/confbase.Y ../../sysdep/unix/config.Y ../../sysdep/unix/krt.Y ../../sysdep/linux/netlink/netlink.Y ../../nest/config.Y ../../filter/config.Y ../../proto/bgp/config.Y ../../proto/ospf/config.Y ../../proto/pipe/config.Y ../../proto/rip/config.Y ../../proto/static/config.Y >cf-parse.y bison -bcf-parse -dv -pcf_ cf-parse.y cf-parse.y:1407.2: syntax error, unexpected "|" cf-parse.y:1435.3: syntax error, unexpected "|" make[3]: *** [cf-parse.tab.c] ?????? 1

I think this is new auto-tool or some thing else (I am not a programmer :-))

Can you send me your configure options? Did you use the original configure script or the one you tried to generate? Have a nice fortnight -- Martin `MJ' Mares <mj@ucw.cz> http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/ Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth "while (*p++ = *q++);" -- Dennis M. Ritchie