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..

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