[PATCH 4/7] Babel: Documentation updates.

[Baptiste Jonglez]

On Tue, May 03, 2016 at 01:37:37PM +0200, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen wrote:
> >I thought you were also exporting the router-id as an attribute, since
> >it
> >is shown in "show route all":
> It is exported, but as an opaque blob as far as the Bird core is concerned. 
> 
> >Would it make sense to export the router ID?  It would allow to filter
> >routes based on the originating router (babeld allows that, but I have
> >no
> >idea whether it's actually used by somebody).
> 
> It would, I guess, but that would require teaching the core about 64-bit router IDs, and the parser would need to learn a syntax for them. So it's not trivial, unfortunately, and so I've punted on that for now.

No worries then, as I said, it's probably not used much with babeld
(I certainly don't use it).

> >Can you mention that it needs "protocol direct" to work?  Maybe just
> >add
> >this at the beginning of the example:
> >
> >  protocol direct {
> >    interface "*";
> >  }
> 
> Well I figured that is already in the example config file shipped with Bird, and that most people would just use that as a starting point...

Hmm, on Debian, it isn't.  I think it couldn't hurt to at least mention
that it is needed.

Baptiste
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