Soft routes in bird

Alex Bligh alex at alex.org.uk
Sat May 26 19:30:23 CEST 2012



--On 26 May 2012 18:59:14 +0200 Amadeus <amadeus at freehop.mooo.com> wrote:

> is it possible to configure bird in a way that it
> stops advertising route A as soon as it recognizes
> that the same route A is now advertised by another
> router? So to speak, make it 'respectful' to the
> advertisements of others - despite the fact that
> it has entries of type 'static' matching A?

Depending on your routing protocol (I'm presuming
it's a distance vector protocol), then just preference
your originated route below that of the route it
might hear. DV protocols will not in general advertise
routes unless they are preferred.

-- 
Alex Bligh



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