On Tue, 2019-04-23 at 21:03 +0000, Joakim Tjernlund wrote: > On Tue, 2019-04-23 at 19:33 +0200, Ondrej Zajicek wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 23, 2019 at 12:40:04PM +0000, Joakim Tjernlund wrote: > > > > I think the standard just does not consider the case of 'unnumbered' > > > > link with both local and remote address but without subnet and assumes > > > > 'real' unnumbered PtP link with no local IP address associated with > > > > the iface. > > > > > > There is always some local address, in linux you have to assign it to the > > > I/F, > > > but in others, like Cisco, you can assign an IP address to a dummy I/F > > > and then > > > tell unnumbered I/Fs to use the dummy I/Fs' IP address. > > > There has to be some SRC IP address on pkgs sent by OSPF > > > > Yes, but the way how the RFC is written it (IMHO) assumes the second case - > > unnumbered ifaces using SRC IP from some dummy iface. Therefore stub > > yes, the second case, agreed. > > > node is associated with the dummy iface and not with the unnumbered PtP > > iface. > > No, this is a true unnumbered I/F(it has no local IP address) and will not > generate > any stub route. > > > > > > Since Linux always has an local IP adress it is not possible to deduce if > > > the > > > user intended the link to be unnumbered or not, unless one wants to add > > > explicit > > > config "unnumbered", it would be best to assume unnumbered I think. > > > > I do not understand what you mean in this article. Linux could have active > > iface > > without any IP address and it can be used for PtP link (with SRC IP from > > some > > other iface), but it is not implemented in BIRD. > > I expressed myself badly, I meant if one want to have control over what SRC > ip is used, > you need to have it on the local I/F. Maybe there is a way to do that these > days differently > but I don't think any PtoP impl. on Linux uses that. > > > It is true that even a link with local /32 IP without specified remote peer > > could > > be used for OSPF PtP link. BIRD in this case assumes it is a stub /32 and i > > am not > > sure whether it could be configured as regular PtP. I did not realized > > before that > > this is a relevant case for PtP link. > > This case is as close one gets to a true unnumbered I/F in Linux I think and > pppd supports > such links. I think should treat /32 links as unnumbered even if there is an > remote > IP address or make it configurable. > > > > Consider the use case with many /32 ptp links, all with the same local > > > IP, there would > > > be a lot of redundant host routes in the Router LSA. Better to let the > > > user > > > add an explicit stub network for all PtoP's if one needs it. > > > > Well, that is solvable by not putting the same stub multiple times in the > > Router LSA. > > Maybe but since it is the remote ip one puts here you will only save "space" > when > you have multiple ptop links between the same two routers. > > > More debatable is a case like this: > > > > eth0 10.0.0.1/24 > > eth1 10.0.0.1/32 peer 10.0.1.1/32 > > > > 10.0.0.1 is already reachable by route for eth0 (either stub or network), > > so it is technically not necessary to have it in the Router LSA as > > a separate /32 stub. So it makes sense to me to have it configurable > > with three values: yes, no, if-not-covered. > > Yes, this is what I was getting at too. Maybe have a conf option "unnumbered" > to treat > eth1 as a "true" unnumbred I/F(no stub network). > Quietion is, what should be default? > What is default in current 2.0 Bird? > > Jocke >
I have a hard time understanding the code for section 12.4.1.1 Option 1 and Option 2: /* Now we will originate stub area if there is no primary */ if (net_lsa || (ifa->type == OSPF_IT_VLINK) || ((ifa->addr->flags & IA_PEER) && ! ifa->cf->stub) || configured_stubnet(oa, ifa->addr)) continue; Is the above always true for a ptp I/F? I am not clear over how IA_HOST, IA_PEER and ifa->cf->stub works. Also, important to agree if a /32 mask constitutes a subnet or not? That would explain the below, there is no Option 1 /* Host or network stub entry */ if ((ifa->addr->flags & IA_HOST) || (ifa->state == OSPF_IS_LOOP) || (ifa->type == OSPF_IT_PTMP)) add_rt2_lsa_link(p, LSART_STUB, ipa_to_u32(ifa->addr->ip), 0xffffffff, 0); else add_rt2_lsa_link(p, LSART_STUB, ip4_to_u32(net4_prefix(&ifa->addr->prefix)), u32_mkmask(net4_pxlen(&ifa->addr->prefix)), ifa->cost);