On Tue, May 03, 2016 at 01:37:37PM +0200, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen wrote: > >I thought you were also exporting the router-id as an attribute, since > >it > >is shown in "show route all": > It is exported, but as an opaque blob as far as the Bird core is concerned. > > >Would it make sense to export the router ID? It would allow to filter > >routes based on the originating router (babeld allows that, but I have > >no > >idea whether it's actually used by somebody). > > It would, I guess, but that would require teaching the core about 64-bit > router IDs, and the parser would need to learn a syntax for them. So it's not > trivial, unfortunately, and so I've punted on that for now.
No worries then, as I said, it's probably not used much with babeld
(I certainly don't use it).
> >Can you mention that it needs "protocol direct" to work? Maybe just
> >add
> >this at the beginning of the example:
> >
> > protocol direct {
> > interface "*";
> > }
>
> Well I figured that is already in the example config file shipped with Bird,
> and that most people would just use that as a starting point...
Hmm, on Debian, it isn't. I think it couldn't hurt to at least mention
that it is needed.
Baptiste
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