Sebastian Benoit <[email protected]> wrote: > Mitchell Krome([email protected]) on 2019.03.23 20:27:17 +1000: > > Was messing around with ospf and got myself into a situation where the > > router ID's were the same on two boxes because I only did a reload on > > one of them when I changed the loopback IP's. > > Thats sub optimal i believe... > > > This adds a warning when reloading if the router ID changes (there was > > already a comment saying as much). Same patch can probably be applied to > > ospf6d if people think it's useful. > > I think it would be better to abort the reload if the router-id is changed, > i.e. not load the new config at all.
That's the right approach in all our other daemons: if the configuration change cannot be installed correctly, consider it invalid and abort. Someone would need to write code to make it valid..
