Hi, It would be nice to have such possibility like in ip tool. Thanks, Ondrej, your tip was incredibly helpful in solving the issue.
Thanks, Marcin On 14/02/2024, 17:39, "Ondrej Zajicek" <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: On Wed, Feb 14, 2024 at 10:05:59AM +0000, Saklak, Marcin via Bird-users wrote: > Hello Bird Users, > > I have an issue with adding static route and interfaces. I use two different > platform one has interface names like eth-1_1_32 and second eth-1\1\64. > First one works as I would expect. > > route 192.168.1.5/32 via fe80::2 % "eth-1\1\64"; > bird> configure > > Reading configuration from /mnt/storage/config/bird.conf > > /mnt/storage/config/bird.conf:29:51 syntax error, unexpected TEXT > > for: > route 192.168.1.5/32 via "fe80::2%eth-1\1\64"; > no error and no entries in linux > I did also tests with > route 192.168.1.5/32 via "fe80::2%eth-1\\\1\\\64"; > route 192.168.1.5/32 via "fe80::2%eth-1\\1\\64"; > > route 192.168.1.5/32 via fe80::2 % ’eth-1\\\1\\\64’; > route 192.168.1.5/32 via fe80::2 % ’eth-1\\1\\64’; > > without any success > > Is it possible to make it work on both cases or there is some other way to > configure such static route? Hi Looking now at the lexer and grammar rules, it is: Quoted symbols (e.g. 'abc') can contain alphanumeric, '_', '-', '.' and ':'. Doublequoted strings (e.g. "abc") can contain everything except '"', as there is no quoting. It would be just "eth-1\1\64" Unfortunately, for static route with link-local IPv6 address, the grammar requires symbol not string, so one could just write something like fe80::1%eth0. Therefore, it is not possible to use such interface name here directly. You could do it indirectly, by defining it as a direct route and setting nexthop in filter: route 2001:db8:10::/48 via "eth-1\1\64" { gw = fe80::2; }; I think that we should accept more sane syntax for static routes with link-local next hops, like one used by 'ip' command from iproute2, i.e.: route 2001:db8:10::/48 via fe80::1 dev "eth0"; -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Ondrej 'Santiago' Zajicek (email: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>) "To err is human -- to blame it on a computer is even more so."
