Bird handles OpenBSD route priority differently

[Ondrej Zajicek]

On Mon, Jan 21, 2019 at 02:58:19PM +0700, Igor Podlesny wrote:
> (compared to native OSPF daemon.)
> 
> bird> show ospf state all
> 
> area 0.0.0.0
> 
> router 192.168.69.34
> distance 0
> network 192.168.69.32/29 metric 10
> external 0.0.0.0/0 metric2 10000 via 192.168.69.37
> external 192.168.69.32/29 metric2 10000
> 
> Higher priority 12 is of a lesser significance, so kernel prefers
> default via .36.
> Trying OpenOSPFd it's seen that theirs OSPF also prefers default via
> .36 in its advertisements.

Hi

Yes, our BSD code does not handle kernel route priorities, i didn't even
know there is such feature, it seems to be OpenBSD specific. Therefore,
in your test case BIRD chooses one route arbitrarily. Should not be hard
to implement this.

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