On 8/2/2012 9:56 PM, Amadeus wrote:
Hello list,
is there any best practise to advertise static routes when interface
names change? I have many ppp uplinks running on a server (ppp0, ppp1,
ppp2 etc.) with static routes on them which I configure like this:
protocol static {
route 10.0.0.0/28 via 169.254.0.1;
route 10.0.0.1/28 via 169.254.0.1;
route 10.0.0.2/28 via 169.254.0.2;
}
On startup, bird recognizes perfectly which interface they belong to but
if ppp reconnects, the interface name may change and so does the routing
information - so it has to be updated by bird, is that any possible? All
I can do right now is "check link on" so routes will disappear at least
when interfaces go down. There is no 'scan' option for static routes as
far as I understand the documentation, or can this be done any differently?
Thanks,
Amadeus
you can always make the ppp connection naming static or use canonical
name for a specific link which is the same.
i have seen some potato like "tomato" code that was being used to LB dsl
connection which this guy used static naming for ppp connections and
there might be a hint with the way he did it.
the source code and readme are here:
https://github.com/wisq/potato
Regards,
Eliezer
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