RTS_STATIC_DEVICE oddity

Nigel Kukard nkukard at LBSD.net
Sat Aug 22 19:23:33 CEST 2020


On 2020-08-22 17:02, Ondrej Zajicek wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 21, 2020 at 06:23:57AM +0000, Nigel Kukard wrote:
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> I may be going blind or just dumb, but I could of sworn this worked like
>> a year ago in v2.
>>
>> I have a t_static4 table, with a static device route, I pipe this to my
>> master4 table, then pipe my master4 table to RIP and only pick out the
>> RTS_STATIC_DEVICE routes.
> Hi
>
> RTS_STATIC_DEVICE was removed in BIRD 2 (we probably forgot it in
> documentation and parser, so it does not generate errors).
>
> It does not make sense as one can have ECMP route with one direct
> (device) and one indirect (gateway) nexthop.

Thanks Ondrej,

I checked over the code today and found no use of RTS_STATIC_DEVICE, I
then checked where RTS_STATIC was used and saw the nexthop code, so I
was bordering the same conclusion.

Thanks again for clarifying, much appreciated.

-N



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