Some patches

Ondrej Filip feela at network.cz
Mon Aug 25 00:54:21 CEST 2008


Ondrej Zajicek wrote:
> Hello
> 
> Bird sometimes reported 'bird: nl_parse_link: Malformed message received'.
> The cause is that bird asynchronously received netlink packet from
> wireless driver about some wireless event on its link  layer. In that
> case bird shouldn't complain. This is fixed by the first patch.

Thank you, I will add this to the next release.

> 
> The second patch causes that 'Invalid broadcast address' error is reported
> only once for an interface and not during every interface scan.

Good, this will go to the next release.

> 
> BTW, the behavior of the automatic OSPF password ID selection looks
> very strange to me.  If i have several interfaces and one passord
> for each, then each password gets different ID based on position
> in config file. This is bug or feature? This looks almost useless
> to me and i think that automatic IDs might start with 1 for each
> interface. 

This is a feature I guess. You can set your own ID in config file. My
solution is more flexible than solution proposed in rfc2328, but you
can use BIRD in the way that rfc2328 proposed.

			Ondrej


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