Bird and loopback addresses

[Ondrej Zajicek]

On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 02:45:14PM +0100, Ruben Laban wrote:
> (resending with proper from address)
> 
> Hello,
> 
> It seems that bird ignores any interfaces / ip addresses which have a subnet 
> mask of 255.255.255.255. This seems to apply to both BGP as OSPF. An interface 
> configured with A.B.C.D/E (E<32) seems to be picked up just fine, whereas 
> configuring it A.B.C.D/32 and a route to A.B.C.D/E does not result in the 
> interface to be picked.

BIRD definitely did not ignore interfaces with /32 mask, (for example,
you can have BGP or OSPF link with peer addresses without any problems).
But if you just add IP address with /32 mask (without specifying a peer
address) and then add a device route for some other network, IP
addresses from such network are not considered to be neighbors. I am not
sure if that answers your questions.

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Ondrej 'SanTiago' Zajicek (email: santiago at crfreenet.org)
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