exporting routes to kernel

[Ondrej Zajicek]

On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 08:56:49PM +0100, Tomasz Głuch wrote:
> On czw, mar 15, 2012 at 05:33:19 +0100, Benjamin Cama wrote:
> > Hi Thomasz,
> > 
> > Le jeudi 15 mars 2012 ?? 15:14 +0100, Tomasz Głuch a écrit :
> > > Is there any reason to not accept routes other than RTS_STATIC_DEVICE, assuming that
> > > possible loops are filtered out? Is other approach for this issue? The same problem occurs
> > > when routes origin from OSPF.
> > 
> > It's not that bird only allow static protocols, it's just that bird
> > won't export device routes to kernel tables by default. See the ???device
> > routes??? switch here http://bird.network.cz/?get_doc&f=bird-6.html#ss6.4
> Thank you for help. Actually, enabling 'device routes' solved problem. I came
> across this term before, but I've change to many parameters at once to notice
> the difference.

> > 
> > Still, I don't understand why it even allows the static device route.
> > Maybe because it's a host address?
> According to argumentation from linked paragraph, static routes are not
> managed by kernel, so there is no reason to exclude them, but I could be
> wrong.

They are allowed because there is a no big risk of inadvertently
mangling with kernel device routes if an user have to explicitly
configure that device route in the static protocol.

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