On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 01:54:33PM +0100, Ivo Smits wrote: > I've created attached patches to prevent BGP route loops from turning > into ghosts (issue reported earlier to the mailing list: > http://marc.info/?l=bird-users&m=129433651229774&w=2). > > Instead of completely ignoring received BGP routes containing the > router's own AS number, it should now handle them as if the prefixes are > unreachable. > > We have tested the patch against git and it fixed the issue there. I've > also made an (untested) patch against bird 1.2.5.
Thanks for the patch. I already have semifinished patch that did some bigger changes to BGP error handling code and also fixes this problem, so i would not merge that, but it might be useful for others. -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Ondrej 'SanTiago' Zajicek (email: [email protected]) 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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