Bird RIP does not send some packages

Ondrej Filip feela at network.cz
Mon May 13 15:25:00 CEST 2013


On 13.5.2013 15:22, Aleksey Chudov wrote:
> 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?

Sure, that should be easy. So wait a couple of days, please.

			Ondrej


> 
> 
> Aleksey




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