[PATCH v2] Babel: Allow v6 next hop on interfaces with v4 addresses

Chris Webb chris at arachsys.com
Fri Mar 28 18:56:14 CET 2025


Ondrej Zajicek writes:

> Merged. I did some rather intrusive rework:
> 
> https://gitlab.nic.cz/labs/bird/-/commit/ 
> f80003e35b94cd7b5807b72a3697b7762a00f83f
> 
> - Changed it to be two separate options, existing one to control support
>    for RFC 9229, the new one 'next hop prefer' to control the behavior
> 
> - Moved the effective code to the proper place (where the next hop is
>    actually selected), that simplifies reconfiguration
> 
> I hope that is okay for you.

Many thanks, that's great! Splitting into two configuration options like 
this feels more logical than overloading the existing one, as you say.

Best wishes,

Chris.


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