bird rip question

[Miklós Máté]

Hi,

thank you very much for your help, after adding a direct protocol RIP 
runs fine.

MM

On 06/10/2023 16:23, Ondrej Zajicek wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 06, 2023 at 04:05:28PM +0200, Miklós Máté wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm trying to set up BIRD to demonstrate RIP in a Mininet environment, but
>> it doesn't seem to work. I'm using the attached configs. The OSPF one works
>> properly, but with RIP it only sends a Request message on startup, and then
>> nothing. According to the log the Request is received properly, but no
>> Response is sent, and the periodic timer doesn't do anything either.
> Hi
>
> With RIP and other vector distance protocols, you need to provide local
> direct routes using Direct protocol (they are not learned from Kernel
> protocol).
>
> See this:
>
> https://gitlab.nic.cz/labs/bird-tools/-/blob/master/netlab/cf-rip-base/README.md
> https://gitlab.nic.cz/labs/bird-tools/-/blob/master/netlab/cf-rip-base/bird_m1.conf
>

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