bird does not speak OSPF on a GRE tunnel interface

[Ondrej Zajicek]

On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 03:26:41PM +0200, Alexander Velkov wrote:
> Hi Ondrej,
> 
> Thanks for you answer! I did exactly this and bird finally became more
> 'chatty' :).
> This is very nice, although I expected that bird is "sensing" the state of
> the interfaces (e.g. through the device/direct protocols).

Yes, it does that. But you still have to specify which interfaces it is
allowed to use for specific protocols. You can use wildcards (e.g.
"eth*") instead of specific interfaces.

> What is "scanned" actually by the 'device' protocol ?

List of interfaces and its addresses/prefixes.

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