On Mon, 2005-11-28 at 00:54 +0100, Christian Hammers wrote: > Using the "--retain" option does not do what you want. It does, in so far you > are indeed right, retain the routes when the Daemons are stopped but it DOES > NOT import them when they are started again. The kernel continues to use them > though. <snip> > So as far as I see it, the situation is still the same. There is no known unix > routing suite that is able to get updated e.g. stopped and restarted without > loosing the BGP/OSPF/etc routes and thus I can only ask the admin if he really > likes to upgrade Quagga. I don't like this neither but please provide a > working alternative that's better.
I certainly I agree with your comments above Christian, but I have a question. Why is the explcit flush needed in the init script? In my experience zebra does a great job of removing any routes it has created from the kernel's routing table on it's own. If this explicit flush was removed from the init script then it would be much easier for the site admin to implement site specific policy for things (such as --retain) that are not suitable for the Debian package. Does this make sense? -- Matt Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mob +64 275 611 544 www.mattb.net.nz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
