Not re-exporting learned OSPF routes

[Ryan Whelan]

That would be helpful-  it'd be nice to not have to keep the same setting
in multiple places in the config file


On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 4:50 AM, Ondrej Zajicek <santiago at crfreenet.org>wrote:

> On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 02:41:12PM -0400, Ryan Whelan wrote:
> > Wow- thanks for the quick response guys!  This works great!
> >
> > Is it possible to set the dead timer, auth ttype, password, etc per area
> > and only override the interface differences (like cost) on a per
> interface
> > basis? (having the interfaces inherit the non-specified settings from the
> > area config)
>
> It is not currently possible, you have to copy the options.
>
> I don't think that setting per-area defaults is the best way how to
> solve this. It is not uncommon to have several classes of ifaces with
> different sets of options. Perhaps named iface templates, like ones
> used for protocols, could solve this issue in a better way:
>
> template "wired" { hello 3; retransmit 2; wait 10; dead 15; check link; };
> template "wireless" { hello 5; retransmit 2; wait 10; dead 60; };
>
> interface "eth0" from "wired" { cost 10; };
> interface "eth1" from "wired" { cost 20; };
> interface "wlan0" from "wireless" { cost 100; };
> interface "wlan1" from "wireless" { cost 200; };
>
> Any comments?
>
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