On Tue, Jun 15, 2021 at 02:50:09PM +0200, Alexander Zubkov wrote: > Hi, > > I think it is intentional so that bird should not meddle with "foreign" > routes. In Linux, for example, it uses it's own protocol label and > does not touch other routes. It can import them, but does not change them.
Hi Yes, that is true. > In your situation, I think the optimal solution is to have your > original default routes with some high metric, so that bird's default > should override it later. In that case it will not need to replace > routes it does not own, because usually you can have routes with the > same prefix but different metrics simultaneousely in your routing > table. That works in Linux, but i do not think it works in FreeBSD. AFAIK there is only one route per network there. Using -proto1 -nostatic for route is an easy way how to workaround this issue on BSD. -- 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."
