Babel in Bird

Juliusz Chroboczek jch at pps.univ-paris-diderot.fr
Wed May 11 15:53:06 CEST 2016


> Using random router-id seems like a good idea. Perhaps even an TLV that
> describes 'nominal' configured router-id, so regular router-id could be
> random, but routes could still contain configured router-id for admin
> purposes.  Unfortunately, Babel does not have support for something like
> Opaque-LSA.

Right on all counts.

> Could not help with this issue just to allow increasing seqnum by more
> than 1 in reaction to recevied seqno request (3.8.1.2), to value
> rcv_seqno+1 ?

I'm not sure it doesn't break loop avoidance, I'd need to think it over.

-- Juliusz


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