Next bunch of questions...

[Pavel Machek]

Hi!

> I noticed messages in my syslog that inform about bird dumping the routing
> table a bit to often to the interfaces. Example:
> 
>  Feb 13 09:36:41 (none) daemon.debug bird: rip1: Broadcasting routing table to
> eth0
>  Feb 13 09:36:51 (none) daemon.debug bird: rip1: Broadcasting routing table to
> eth0
>  Feb 13 09:36:58 (none) daemon.debug bird: rip1: Broadcasting routing table to
> eth0
>  Feb 13 09:37:09 (none) daemon.debug bird: rip1: Broadcasting routing table to
> eth0
>  Feb 13 09:37:20 (none) daemon.debug bird: rip1: Broadcasting routing table to
> eth0
>  Feb 13 09:37:26 (none) daemon.debug bird: rip1: Broadcasting routing table to
> eth0
>  Feb 13 09:37:33 (none) daemon.debug bird: rip1: Broadcasting routing table to
> eth0
>  Feb 13 09:37:39 (none) daemon.debug bird: rip1: Broadcasting routing table to
> eth0
>  Feb 13 09:37:45 (none) daemon.debug bird: rip1: Broadcasting routing table to
> eth0
>  Feb 13 09:37:53 (none) daemon.debug bird: rip1: Broadcasting routing table to
> eth0
> 
> If I did not fully misunderstood the meaning of the configuration options it
> should broadcast them every 30 seconds, not every 5 to 10 seconds:

It does not really broadcast them every 5 seconds, it just checks if
there is something to send. (Not 100% sure, now, check the source or
look at tcpdump).
									Pavel

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