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

Wilco Baan Hofman wilco at baanhofman.nl
Fri Mar 20 09:31:37 CET 2015


Some computer network equipment use the term "loopback" for a virtual
interface used for management purposes.

Job meant your main normal IPv4 address, not the loopback address on the
loopback virtual interface.

-- Wilco

On 20/03/15 09:23, olivier a wrote:
>
> let's 192.168.1.1 is my router Wan IP. One single physical router
> running bird and bird6.
>
> Solution 1 :
> bird router id = 192.168.1.1
> bird6 router id = 192.168.1.1
>
> Solution 2 :
> bird router id = 192.168.1.1
> bird6 router id = 127.0.0.1
>
> Is that what you're advising ?
> What are the benefits of using IPv4 loopback as bird6 router id ??!
> :-)
>
> On Mar 19, 2015 11:13 AM, "Job Snijders" <job at instituut.net
> <mailto:job at instituut.net>> wrote:
>
>     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
>

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