bird and OSPF on p2p

[Ondrej Zajicek]

On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 01:33:09PM +0200, Joakim Tjernlund wrote:
> > 3) I thought that for some reasons the ifindex in 'data' value of link in
> > router LSA is somehow important in link-back check or next-hop calculation
> > when there are parallel links, but it seems to be completely useless
> > - local router does not need it and neighboring routers can't map their
> > links to links in local router LSA, because they don't know local
> > ifindexes.
> 
> It is useless now but bird used ifindex earlier to find its interface
> and I think many impl. still does.

BTW, i think BIRD didn't used the ifindex value in the past.
Before current implementation it tried all ptp ifaces that
have neighbor with given router ID.

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