The obvious way would be to use a FHRP such as VRRP or CARP, alternatively
use something like RIP in receive only mode. There has to be a decent reason
to use that though!
Matthew Walster
On 4 Nov 2010 16:16, "Stéphan Kochen" wrote:
On do, 2010-11-04 at 10:24 +0100, Ondrej Zajicek wrote:
> I wo
On do, 2010-11-04 at 10:24 +0100, Ondrej Zajicek wrote:
> I would suggest to use some shell/perl script that ping to the gateway
> and according to its reachability it will enable/disable static
> protocol (with routes using that gateway) in BIRD.
While we're on this topic...
I'm facing a similar
On Thu, Nov 04, 2010 at 08:25:34AM -0700, Mahlon E. Smith wrote:
> > Detecting a link state is crude, because there might be many
> > other kinds of problems that does not change link state.
>
> Agreed, although I'd maintain that in no case should a lack of link be a
> valid condition for bird to
On Thu, Nov 04, 2010, Ondrej Zajicek wrote:
>
> Although i agree with Joakim Tjernlund and others that link state change
> detection is useful to get faster response to internal network
> unreachability. I think that in your case you would need something
> slightly different.
>
> I understand tha
On Wed, Nov 03, 2010 at 07:39:48AM -0700, Mahlon E. Smith wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 02, 2010, Ondrej Zajicek wrote:
>
> > BIRD currently does not check or use link up/down state. OSPF routers
> > generally check reachability using HELLO packets, not by reported link
> > state, although sometimes this i
