On 1/30/17 4:56 PM, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
>>
>> As I mentioned quagga does not work with IPv6 multipath as is today. 
>>
>> I just looked at bird. IPv6 mpath support was added in Sept. 2016. It 
>> specifically hard codes not accepting RTA_MULTIPATH for IPv6 which I think 
>> is an odd choice and clearly coding to quirks as opposed to rtnetlink 
>> design. Having never looked at bird code I was able to get it working in < 1 
>> hour. I will contact the patch author about that limitation. That said, the 
>> bird implementation needs work when you look at the 
>> add/delete/replace/append permutations, so the current code has its problems 
>> as well.
> 
> Also what if quagga was fixed but  had to work with existing enterprise 
> distros?
> 

I am testing the patches; it will work on both.


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