Hi Ondrej, Le lun. 25 janv. 2021 à 10:03, Ondrej Zajicek <[email protected]> a écrit : > > On Sun, Jan 24, 2021 at 05:23:30PM -0500, Etienne Champetier wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > When configuring a ptp interface, the local address is /32, and the > > prefix is supposed to be applied to the peer address > > I not using a non /32 peer but was curious when reading `man ip-address` > > Hi > > It is true that for non-/32 prefix BIRD uses IFA_LOCAL instead of > IFA_ADDRESS for prefix. For regular addresses (where local IP is from > the range) it does not matter. For /32 PtP addresses it is handled > properly. The only problematic case is PtP address with non-/32 prefix > (like in your case), but this case is generally not supported by BIRD > anyways, and would require some work to handle it properly. It is rather > strange and asymetric network setup. Do you have any use cases for that?
No, not at all, I was just curious if such setup even make sense at all Thanks for the answer Best Etienne > > -- > 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."
