Bird RIP does not send some packages

[Aleksey Chudov]

On 13.05.2013 11:03, Ondrej Filip wrote:
> On 13.5.2013 09:19, Aleksey Chudov wrote:
>> Hi Ondrej,
>>
>> Sorry for bothering. Have you tried to fix a bug in the split-horizon?
> Well I have rewritten the RIP protocol. However it is not tested so I
> did not put it into 1.3.10. But if you have some testing capacity,
> please test git branch RIP. But precisely this issue has not been
> fixed yet. But I plan to work on it.
>
> 		Ondrej
>

I have a fairly simple RIP configuration. I'm not sure that my tests 
will be enough, but in any case I'll try to test the basic functionality 
tonight.

According to http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2453#section-3.4.3 current 
implementation of the split-horizon in the bird only supports "Split 
horizon with poisoned reverse". In some cases it is convenient to 
disable "poisoned reverse" and use generic "Split horizon". For example, 
to reduce the amount of RIP packet with a short RIP update period. Could 
you add a configuration option to disable poisoned reverse?


Aleksey