Re: 1024 sessions problem

2015-11-02 Thread Alex Bligh
our workload, just > discussing). I'm not sure you need to go as far as libevent. poll / ppoll are widely supported and avoid a linear scan of an array of 1024+ items. It's also relatively easy to put in a wrapper to make select() work like *poll() on systems that don't support it. -- Alex Bligh

Re: Running BIRD on Virtual Machines

2016-02-10 Thread Alex Bligh
rdware, in fact I've run it in containers) and there is no issue. -- Alex Bligh

Re: routing using kernel fibs

2016-05-30 Thread Alex Bligh
ication in stub areas and NSSA but ignore that complication for now as they are nothing to do with what you are asking. -- Alex Bligh

Re: New "channels" feature in future version of Bird?

2016-06-17 Thread Alex Bligh
ork on hacking this in as a sort of filtering pipe. I ran up against a problem where I needed both a protocol and an instance of a protocol as separate things if I remember. This was a couple of years ago so I may have forgotten. The lua bit seemed easy enough. -- Alex Bligh

Re: Improving Anycast routing with Bird

2016-09-21 Thread Alex Bligh
ic DNS server to get you to the right CDN element. -- Alex Bligh

Re: Minimalist BGP Anycast Lab Built from VMs?

2016-10-03 Thread Alex Bligh
de pages should be shared between instances assuming the same bird binary is run in each. Code pages are also potentially shared between VMs with kernel samepage merging, but that won't work AFAIK with Virtualbox on OS-X. -- Alex Bligh

Re: Bird OSPF + Wireguard + Jessie w/kernel 4.8.7-1

2016-12-05 Thread Alex Bligh
62254/why-do-i-get-required-key-not-available-when-install-3rd-party-kernel-modules -- Alex Bligh

Re: password for BGP in clear-text in bird.conf file?

2015-04-25 Thread Alex Bligh
On 25 Apr 2015, at 17:25, Christopher Jay Manders wrote: > It is a security issue to have a password stored in clear-text. bird needs to obtain the password in plain text. If bird can decrypt the stored value, so can anything else with file permissions to read the file. -- Alex Bligh

Re: IS-IS

2015-05-24 Thread Alex Bligh
erge is only a prerequisite if you want to route both IPv4 and IPv6 simultaneously. IS-IS also has other uses (e.g. trill / SPB / 802.1aq). -- Alex Bligh signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail

Re: IS-IS

2015-05-31 Thread Alex Bligh
On 31 May 2015, at 19:32, Hans van Kranenburg wrote: > On 05/24/2015 02:08 PM, Alex Bligh wrote: >> >> On 19 Dec 2012, at 11:56, Ondrej Zajicek wrote: >>> >>> [1] >>> https://git.nic.cz/redmine/projects/bird/repository/revisions/fed1bceb2cf6

Re: OSPF and mass route deletion

2015-07-14 Thread Alex Bligh
bility to add some rate-limiting (for ex., limit to 10 >> messages per second), and aggregate separate 'route deleted' messages to one >> packet? > > > -- Alex Bligh

Re: [PATCH RFC 1/1] Add the Babel routing protocol (RFC 6129) to Bird.

2015-08-25 Thread Alex Bligh
re to avoid the consequent ICMP unreachable packets closing TCP sessions during reconvergence? How should the blackhole route interact with other routing protocols? -- Alex Bligh