On 2014/11/13 23:06, [email protected] wrote: > Hi! > > I'm working on getting a few linux-routers with bird up and running and I'm > wondering: Is there any way to influence source-address selection for the > routes installed by bird? (how do other bird-users handle this?, I guess I'm > not alone?)
One method is to force the address to be marked "deprecated", this means that it can receive packets but isn't chosen as a source. I do this on OpenBSD by setting "pltime 0" when configuring the address, there's a blog post describing this on Linux where the equivalent is "preferred_lft 0". http://www.davidc.net/networking/ipv6-source-address-selection-linux This isn't BIRD-specific.
