Hello Sebastian, >> Issue: 46, 340
On Sun, Jan 04, 2026 at 02:04:04PM +0100, Sebastian Hahn wrote: > just wanted to ask if there's any progress here. Added Maria because I've > seen you a lot on the mailing list. Many thanks! Well there is _some_ progress, yet probably not complete, see below. On Sun, Jan 14, 2024 at 10:50:18PM +0100, Sebastian Hahn wrote: > I've been using strict bind for bgp, but there might be a lack in my > understanding or I have a proposal for a new feature. Strict bind seems to be > a bit more restrictive than I'd like (and than I think it is necessary): > > I would like to use dynamic bgp (using a range for neighbour) with > auto-configured LL IPv6 adresses. This doesn't work, of course, if I > need to statically configure the source address, which I am forced to > with the strict bind option. [...] With BIRD 2.18, you should be able (and I may be wrong because I implemented it half a year ago) to have `strict bind` with dynamic link-local and `interface` set. I have no idea whether your needs would be met completely with this version but if you could check please … > I am wondering, is this restriction > really needed? There is only one IP address (the LL one) on the > interface in question (and the interface is specified in config). > I think this should mean that bird could just pick that IP address and > use it for both source as well as to bind to. If that is true, could a > "source address auto" option or so be added to allow such a > configuration? If it's ok that it would choose the source address kinda randomly from that interface, it's probably a feature worth adding. And because we did some BGP listening reworks, it should actually be trivial now, while for 2.17 and older it wasn't. > In addition, it would be great if a strict bind option could be added > for the babel protocol. Noted finally, sorry for missing that. Thanks for the heads-up, have a good new year! Maria -- Maria Matejka (she/her) | BIRD Team Leader | CZ.NIC, z.s.p.o.
