BIRD 1.3.7

[Ondrej Zajicek]

On Sun, May 06, 2012 at 06:21:11PM +0200, Gustavo Ponza wrote:
> Hi everyone, developers and users,
>
> having played (for the *first* time) the last
> three months with the 'quagga' suite, incidentally,
> just some days ago, I discovered the BIRD program
> and want to try it... the router compiled and run
> OK on my (production) 2.6.21 linux kernel platform.
> So, since then, I installed it and now I'm learning
> and practicing for the best working configuration,
> focused for now, only on the 'ospf' environment in
> which I'm concerned.
>
> Since I experienced (at least it is for me) that the
> newest quagga releases doesn't work on my alternate
> 2.4 linux platform (kernel 2.4.23), I tried the BIRD
> on that and discovered it run OK... the ospf routing
> processes seem regular without any problems, but:

Yes, Linux 2.4 should work in BIRD. But it is not
regularly tested.

> 1) at launch of bird appears on console the warning:
>   'bird: Monotonic timer is missing'

That is because Linux 2.4 does not have monotonic
timer. In that case we use standard timer and have
workarounds for detecting time jumps (e.g. when NTP
get synchronized) so it should work even in that case.

> furthermore, the *syslog* reports (from 'startup' to
> 'shutdown') the following lines:
>
> May  6 08:25:31 ir0rm-7 bird: Monotonic timer is missing
> May  6 08:25:44 ir0rm-7 bird: Netlink: File exists
> May  6 08:26:33 ir0rm-7 last message repeated 3 times

See FAQ for this warning message (Netlink: File exists):

https://git.nic.cz/redmine/projects/bird/wiki/FAQ

> are they due to my systems or to my missed/wrong
> setups; or instead a suddenly re-appearing
> of such a warnings/(failure for 2.4?) messages?

I do not see any unexpected warnings. Probably it is sufficient to test
whether new route appears in kernel table and whether disappears when it
is removed.

-- 
Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo

Ondrej 'SanTiago' Zajicek (email: santiago at crfreenet.org)
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