BIRD <-> Quagga OSPF Compatibility

[Joakim Tjernlund]

>
> --On 2 November 2011 13:02:13 +0100 Ondrej Zajicek <santiago at crfreenet.org>
> wrote:
>
> > The patch is OK (as a workaround). Note that the problem is only
> > related to 'unnumbered' ptp links, so the simplest workaround
> > is just to assign (at least /30) regular IP prefix to that link.
> > I am not strongly opposed to add such kind of broken-quagga-compat
> > option, but not sure if it is worth if it is only related to
> > such corner cases.
>
> I am guessing this might be one of the issues affecting us (*). We
> can't do numbering as we have large numbers of /32s as interface
> routes. Numbering these would use either 2 or 4 times the address
> space which is not acceptable.

What if you forcefully remove the IA_PEER flag for your ppp interfaces?
Then an IP address is send instead of ifIndex in the router LSA. Could be an useful
addition to bird.

 Jocke