[PATCH 3/3] babel: Add option to randomise router ID

[Ondrej Zajicek]

On Tue, May 01, 2018 at 12:41:01PM +0200, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen wrote:
> Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke at toke.dk> writes:
> 
> > When a Babel node restarts, it loses its sequence number, which can cause
> > its routes to be rejected by peers until the state is cleared out by other
> > nodes in the network (which can take on the order of minutes).
> >
> > There are two ways to fix this: Having stable storage to keep the sequence
> > number across restarts, or picking a different router ID each time.
> >
> > This implements the latter, by introducing a new option that will cause
> > Bird to pick a random router ID every time it starts up. This avoids the
> > problem at the cost of not having stable router IDs in the network.
> 
> BTW, I would also like to implement the EUI-64-based router ID
> assignment that babeld does, since it can significantly improve protocol
> efficiency in some v6 deployments. But that would require ignoring the
> global setting for router ID; is that acceptable, if it's made a
> configuration option?

Hi, how exactly 'EUI-64-based router ID assignment' works? Based on MAC
addresses, IPv6 LL addresses, /etc/machine-id, random assignment or
some other source?

Ignoring global setting is OK, i just wonder whether some global
EUI-64-based unique ID should not be provided directly by the nest

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