bird rip question

[Ondrej Zajicek]

On Fri, Oct 06, 2023 at 04:05:28PM +0200, Miklós Máté wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to set up BIRD to demonstrate RIP in a Mininet environment, but
> it doesn't seem to work. I'm using the attached configs. The OSPF one works
> properly, but with RIP it only sends a Request message on startup, and then
> nothing. According to the log the Request is received properly, but no
> Response is sent, and the periodic timer doesn't do anything either.

Hi

With RIP and other vector distance protocols, you need to provide local
direct routes using Direct protocol (they are not learned from Kernel
protocol).

See this:

https://gitlab.nic.cz/labs/bird-tools/-/blob/master/netlab/cf-rip-base/README.md
https://gitlab.nic.cz/labs/bird-tools/-/blob/master/netlab/cf-rip-base/bird_m1.conf

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