Is it good practice to use same router id for bird and bird6 ?

Job Snijders job at instituut.net
Thu Mar 19 11:13:19 CET 2015


On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 11:08:06AM +0100, Ondrej Zajicek wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 09:35:42AM +0100, olivier a wrote:
> > Is it good practice to use same router id for bird and bird6 ?
> > 
> > I'm wondering if there are some drawbacks or pitfalls ?
> 
> I see no reason why not to use the same router id.

I second that. If they are the same physical box, using the IPv4
loopback as router-id in bird6 is a good (and common) approach. 

Kind regards,

Job


More information about the Bird-users mailing list