Problem importing routes from kernel

[Tom Beecher]

Thanks Benjamin for that tidbit. I must have misread that part of the 
docs. (And missed in the the archives when I searched.)

Added this to my bird.conf:

protocol direct {
         interface "*";
}

Results in this :

bird> show route
0.0.0.0/0          via 207.251.204.10 on eth0 [kernel1 09:56] * (10)
207.251.204.0/28   dev eth0 [direct1 09:56] * (240)
bird>

That much I follow, but the 172 route still doesn't appear. To clarify, 
I manually added that with :

route add -host 172.16.100.100 dev eth0

It was my assumption that because the 172 route was manually added I 
needed to access it through the kernel protocol, which is why that's why 
I was going in that direction.

Am I missing something else simple here?

Thanks.

On 10/19/2012 6:06 AM, Benjamin Cama wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Le jeudi 18 octobre 2012 à 16:57 -0400, Tom Beecher a écrit :
>> Currently, I'm unable to get BIRD to import kernel routes into the BIRD
>> process, aside from the system default route.
> BIRD doesn't import device routes with the kernel protocol. You want a
> “direct” protocol for that; see
> http://bird.network.cz/?get_doc&f=bird-6.html#ss6.3
>
> (and there are some threads about that “issue” in the ML archives too, I
> think)
>
> Regards,
> benjamin
>