[PATCH 1/2] Add IP6_SADR support to Bird Core

Toke Høiland-Jørgensen toke at toke.dk
Tue Feb 6 16:57:43 CET 2018


Ondrej Zajicek <santiago at crfreenet.org> writes:

> On Tue, Feb 06, 2018 at 04:38:59PM +0100, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen wrote:
>> > I did not check 2/2 yet, but i think it should support both regular
>> > ipv6 and ipv6 SADR channels/tables, not just the SADR ones.
>> 
>> Hmm, well, my assumption was that since sadr tables can hold normal ipv6
>> routes as well, the pipe hack you were talking about would be sufficient
>> to support both?
>
> It could, but that would be cumbersome for users that just want
> regular routes. The pipe hack is more for setups that integrate SADR
> routes from Babel with other (non-SADR) protocols. Simple setups
> should keep simple configs.

What, we have to be nice to the users now? ;)

Fair enough, I'll add support for both types of channels. Should it be
possible to connect the same instance to both an ipv6 and and ipv6_sadr
channel type, or is it OK to enforce that there's only one of those
active?

-Toke



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