Configuring IP addresses on devices

[Ondrej Zajicek]

On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 01:08:12AM +0200, Tore Anderson wrote:
> Hi list,
> 
> I'm new to BIRD - considering making the switch from Quagga as I'm tired
> of bugs (in OSPFv3 especially).

Just a note, there is one bug in recent Quagga in OSPFv3 that makes
interoperability problems with BIRD. It is probably fixed in version
0.99.16

see:

http://lists.quagga.net/pipermail/quagga-dev/2009-December/007480.html
http://lists.quagga.net/pipermail/quagga-dev/2009-December/007571.html

>  The first part of my existing Quagga
> configuration I attempted to convert, but could not figure out how to,
> was the following:
> 
> interface eth0
>   ip address 192.168.0.1/24
>   ipv6 address 2001:db8::1/64
> 
> Am I right in understanding that there's no way of doing this in BIRD?

Yes, BIRD expects to have IP addresses configured from OS.

> I could keep the zebra daemon around for this purpose but it would be
> kinda lame...

Most people probably configure IP adresses using OS (or Linux distribution)
scripts.

> I'm also curious to hear if there's any plans for VRRP support?

Currently there aren't any.

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