New release 1.3.1!

Ondrej Filip feela at network.cz
Mon May 2 11:23:22 CEST 2011


On 2.5.2011 11:21, David J Craigon wrote:
> That changed in Bird 1.3.0, didn't it? I think the reason it went from
> 1.2 -> 1.3 was because there were config file syntax changes.

Indeed.

		Ondrej

> 
> David
> 
> On 2 May 2011 09:42, Matthew Walster <matthew at walster.org> wrote:
>> 2011/5/2 Ondrej Filip <feela at network.cz>:
>>> Changes:
>>> Version 1.3.1 (2011-05-02)
>>>  o Added Linux kernel route attributes krt_prefsrc and krt_realm.
>>>  o Added BGP option 'med metric' related to MED handling.
>>>  o Allows to use constants from /etc/iproute2/rt_* files.
>>>  o Several bugfixes.
>>
>> Just a word of warning to those thinking of just blindly upgrading -
>> there have been some syntax changes in the configuration files.
>>
>> For instance, I use BIRD primarily to get a live view of BGP, so all
>> it's peerings are via eBGP multihop. In a protocol statement, I had
>> "multihop 64 via saddress;" (where saddress was a pre-defined
>> constant) which I had to change to just "multihop 64;"
>>
>> Of course, those of you with critical infrastructure uses of BIRD
>> (IXPs etc) you'll test and discover this rather than encounter an
>> issue like this ;)
>>
>> Matthew Walster
>>




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