BIRDv2 OSPF: Stub for loopback potentially broken: Invalid Prefix in LSA

Kenth Eriksson Kenth.Eriksson at infinera.com
Mon Apr 15 14:21:12 CEST 2019


On Fri, 2019-04-12 at 14:24 +0200, Ondrej Zajicek wrote:
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> On Thu, Apr 11, 2019 at 08:38:44PM +0200, bauen1 wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I've been playing around with BIRD and OSPF for a while now and ran
> > across an error I don't quite understand, while trying to get BIRD
> > to
> > advertise ip addresses on the loopback interface on a debian 10
> > server.
> 
> Fixed by attached patch.
> 

Does this bug only apply to /32 addresses when running IPv4 over
OSPFv3? Or is it also relevant for OSPFv2? 

Does OSPFv3 (RFC5340 / RFC5838) handle unnumbered (/32) differently
from OSPFv2? 

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