That changed in Bird 1.3.0, didn't it? I think the reason it went from 1.2 -> 1.3 was because there were config file syntax changes.
David On 2 May 2011 09:42, Matthew Walster <matt...@walster.org> wrote: > 2011/5/2 Ondrej Filip <fe...@network.cz>: >> Changes: >> Version 1.3.1 (2011-05-02) >> o Added Linux kernel route attributes krt_prefsrc and krt_realm. >> o Added BGP option 'med metric' related to MED handling. >> o Allows to use constants from /etc/iproute2/rt_* files. >> o Several bugfixes. > > Just a word of warning to those thinking of just blindly upgrading - > there have been some syntax changes in the configuration files. > > For instance, I use BIRD primarily to get a live view of BGP, so all > it's peerings are via eBGP multihop. In a protocol statement, I had > "multihop 64 via saddress;" (where saddress was a pre-defined > constant) which I had to change to just "multihop 64;" > > Of course, those of you with critical infrastructure uses of BIRD > (IXPs etc) you'll test and discover this rather than encounter an > issue like this ;) > > Matthew Walster >
