On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 09:55:24AM +0100, Matthias Schiffer wrote: > Hi, > the attached patch adds support for using link-local v6 addresses for > BGP peerings by adding an interface attribute to the BGP protocol. > It has been succesfully tested in a Bird<->Quagga configuration on > Linux, and with Bird<->Bird using Linux<->Linux and Linux<->FreeBSD. > > I know the BGP RFCs (especially 2545) are a bit unclear if this should > be allowed, but RFC 4659 suggests it should, and also describes how to > set the NEXT_HOP attribute when no global addresses are used. > > Anyways, I'd love to see this patch included in Bird. It shouldn't make > any difference when you don't use the interface attribute, so it won't have > bad influence on people not using this feature, and it makes Bird an > alternative to Quagga when you need link-local peering support. :-)
Thanks, i will merge that. > diff --git a/sysdep/bsd/krt-sock.c b/sysdep/bsd/krt-sock.c > index 53b30ca..fc73be8 100644 > --- a/sysdep/bsd/krt-sock.c > +++ b/sysdep/bsd/krt-sock.c > @@ -541,7 +541,7 @@ krt_read_addr(struct ks_msg *msg) > _I0(ifa.ip) = 0xfe800000; > #endif > > - if (iface->flags & IF_MULTIACCESS) > + if ((iface->flags & IF_MULTIACCESS) || ipa_has_link_scope(ifa.ip)) > { > ifa.prefix = ipa_and(ifa.ip, ipa_mkmask(masklen)); > What is exactly that? Link-local addresses are broken (in BIRD) on non-multiaccess devices on *BSD? -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Ondrej 'SanTiago' Zajicek (email: santi...@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."
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