FreeBSD bugs ;)

[Ondrej Zajicek]

On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 09:16:25AM +0100, Pawel Tyll wrote:
> Hi list,
> 
> After  using  bird  for  some  time  now,  I've found few things that are
> annoying me, or simply break things that should work flawlessly ;)
> 
> bird> show protocols all [some BGP protocol]
>     Routes:         19186 imported, 2 exported, 84627 preferred
> 
> My guess is that it has something to do with pipes.

This is OK. Imported shows just number of routes propagated to directly
connected table, while preferred count shows cummulative number of
routes originated by that protocol in all tables where these routes are
preferred.

> Problem 2:
> 
> bird's reality:
> ng6 up (index=35)
>         PtP Multicast AdminUp LinkUp MTU=1492
>         local.ip/32 (Primary, opposite 192.168.16.35, scope univ)
> vlan3372 up (index=36)
>         PtP Multicast AdminUp LinkUp MTU=1492
>         local.ip/32 (Primary, opposite 192.168.16.171, scope univ)
> ng7 up (index=37)
>         PtP Multicast AdminUp LinkUp MTU=1492
>         local.ip/32 (Primary, opposite 192.168.17.123, scope univ)
> 
> 
> reality's reality:
> ng4: flags=88d1<UP,POINTOPOINT,RUNNING,NOARP,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1492
>         inet local.ip --> 192.168.16.35 netmask 0xffffffff
> ng6: flags=88d1<UP,POINTOPOINT,RUNNING,NOARP,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1492
>         inet local.ip --> 192.168.16.171 netmask 0xffffffff
> ng7: flags=88d1<UP,POINTOPOINT,RUNNING,NOARP,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1492
>         inet local.ip --> 192.168.17.123 netmask 0xffffffff
> # ifconfig vlan3372
> ifconfig: interface vlan3372 does not exist
> 
> Above happened after I decided that I don't feel like wanting vlan3372
> and  changed  it  to  something  else. 

So you removed it? Or renamed?

> In  the meantime some customer
> decided to open PPPoE session, not knowing this will spell his doom :>

> bird   also   happily  ignores  interface  name changes, which hinders
> nice features such as interface "name*" etc.

It is supposed to work (it is handled as removing and readding the interface),
but probably not tested.

-- 
Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo

Ondrej 'SanTiago' Zajicek (email: santiago at crfreenet.org)
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"To err is human -- to blame it on a computer is even more so."
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