Not re-exporting learned OSPF routes

Daryl Turner daryl.turner at gmail.com
Mon Jun 10 16:29:01 CEST 2013


I've applied that patch to our BIRD server in the lab and it works a treat.

Thanks,
Daryl.

On 10 June 2013 13:47, Ondrej Zajicek <santiago at crfreenet.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 10:11:53AM +0100, Daryl Turner wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Its true BIRD does not implement stub router advertisement as an
>> explicit feature, but you can manually set the cost of the stub links.
>
> Here is a patch that adds OSPF protocol option 'stub router' which
> enables RFC 3137 stub router behavior for OSPFv2 and also removes
> R-bit for OSPFv3 (which should do real stub router for OSPFv3,
> but there are some erratas for OSPFv3 i just noticed, so the patch
> behavior for OSPFv3 is WiP).
>
> But RFC 3137 essentially just set link costs to 65535, like your
> config change, and therefore if there is no other route then
> stub router would still be used.
>
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>
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