Patch for IPv6 ECMP support?

[Neil Jerram]

Thanks Arno; I certainly would appreciate seeing your v3 tomorrow.


On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 5:39 PM Arno Töll <arno.toell+bird at profitbricks.com>
wrote:

> Hi Neil,
>
> you are correct. You need this patch on top of BIRD 1.6 to have
> working ECMP for IPv6. This patch is not currently merged, and we did
> not get any feedback on it so far or an estimate when this will
> happen. As you see, it's been a few months that it lies around here,
> so I am not sure this is ever going to happen.
> If you intend to apply this patch yourself, I'd recommend to use
> version 2 at least
> (http://bird.network.cz/pipermail/bird-users/2016-February/010239.html),
> as it includes some fixes.
>
> Having that said, I am aware of at least another issue related to the
> route scan after an ECMP export, which we fixed internally in v3. In
> lack of interest, we did not bother to send it upstream so far.
> However, I will ask Mikhail to send it tomorrow, or I will do, so that
> other interested folks can at least find it on the list.
>
> Greetings,
> Arno
>
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