How to enter static prefix with multiple nexthops but no ECMP?

Kenth Eriksson Kenth.Eriksson at infinera.com
Wed Oct 16 16:52:10 CEST 2019


On Wed, 2019-10-16 at 16:43 +0200, Ondrej Zajicek wrote:
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> On Wed, Oct 16, 2019 at 01:41:45PM +0000, Kenth Eriksson wrote:
> > Hi!
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> > Does bird support a static prefix with multiple nexthops, without
> > installing all of them in the kernel as ECMP?
> 
> Hi
> 
> I think that you are talking about multiple routes/paths with the same
> prefix. Static protocol currently does not support that (and behaves
> strangely when such multiple routes are defined). Simple workaround
> is to define multple static protocol instances. We have a patch for
> multiple static routes with the same prefix and different preference
> in one static protocol (commit 9861dba5230da539e6ce7d2b6baa4f2631556d09),
> but we plan to rewrite that significantly before merging to master.
> 

Ok, thanks for clarifying that. What is the target release for that
feature?
 
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