iproute2 identifiers >256

[Ondrej Zajicek]

On Wed, Apr 07, 2021 at 09:32:20AM -0400, Patrick Hemmer wrote:
> Right now it looks like the functionality of Bird that allows using
> iproute2 named identifiers (e.g. /etc/iproute2/rt_table as ipt_*) is
> restricted to values <=256
> (https://gitlab.nic.cz/labs/bird/-/blob/master/sysdep/unix/main.c#L197).
> However the linux kernel supports much larger values. I know it supports
> table identifiers up to 0xffffffff
> (https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/include/uapi/linux/rtnetlink.h#L337),
> but I'm not sure about the others like rt_protos.

Hi

This seems like a remnant of some past limitations. Update table and
realm/flow iproute2 named constants to 32bit values:

https://gitlab.nic.cz/labs/bird/-/commit/a2277975d787fb388e753432673acefd69454b1a

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