Bird 1.3.3 - Reserved keywords?

[Ondrej Filip]

On 13.9.2011 16:39, Michael Vallaly wrote:
> 
> Hello,

Hi!

> 
> I migrated some of our routers to Bird 1.3.3 yesterday and noticed that
> I was getting a syntax error in some of our previously working bird
> 1.3.2 configurations.
> 
> Seems the word "external" is now a reserved word in 1.3.3?
> 
> /etc/bird.conf
> <snip>
> 6 :
> 7 : # Configure Additional Routing Tables
> 8 : table internal;
> 9 : table external;
> 10:
> </snip>
> 
> The configuration above seems to work fine in 1.3.2, and
> generates a syntax error on line 9 in bird 1.3.3.
> 
> Just wanted to make sure this was expected behavior.

Yes, it was added as an option to the OSPF configuration. Look at
http://bird.network.cz/?get_doc&f=bird-6.html#ss6.5

We are sorry for that. :-(

			Ondrej


> 
> <snip>
> birdc show symbols |grep -ci external
> 0
> </snip>
> 
> Thanks again to all the developers making bird such a great piece of
> software.
> 
> -Mike
>