ospf ptp link sending unicast packets instead of multicast; peer address config not required

Joakim Tjernlund Joakim.Tjernlund at infinera.com
Sat May 8 17:45:36 CEST 2021


On Fri, 2021-05-07 at 14:03 +0000, Senthil Kumar Nagappan wrote:
> Hi Jocke,
> 
> yes i missed to take care of the ospfv3/ipv6 cases wherever im sending using allospfrouters as src ip.
> your are right, mcast changes in packet.c is mostly hack since im not comfortable with the bird code since i have only 1 week of bird code experience.
> reason i did not change inside ospf_send_to() is,since dst address is one of the parameter to the function and i don't want to override inside it. 
> In Hello.c, ospf_send_hello they do some what similar, checking different interface types before they call ospf_send_to()

Ondrej, what is your preference? Perhaps you want to do the impl. yourself?


  Jocke



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