On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 8:45 PM, Tony Sarendal <t...@polarcap.org> wrote:

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> On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 8:02 PM, Henning Brauer <lists-open...@bsws.de>wrote:
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>> * Tony Sarendal <t...@polarcap.org> [2010-10-23 19:03]:
>> > How does OpenBSD handle the same prefix being in both bgpd and ospfd ?
>>
>> in general? OSPF routes have priority over BGP routes. that's
>> implemented kernel routing table side and the daemons setting the
>> priority field to their respective priorities when inserting their
>> routes.
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> Does this mean that bgpd and ospfd can happily co-exist on the same box ?
>
> As an example:
> Prefix A shows up in BGP, later it shows up in OSPF,
> even later it is withdrawn from OSPF. Will the prefix in BGP now be in the
> fib ?
>
> OSPF being the winner is not optimal in my case, but being predictable
> is good enough.
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>  > I connect devices to the core network using two core routers and
>> > redistributing
>> > BGP->OSPF would be happening on both of them.
>>
>> that I dunno OTOH
>>
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> Being able to redist BGP->OSPF and not connecting ospfd to the fib would
> do what I want. Unfortunately the manpage for ospfd.conf doesn't seem to
> support
> this setup.
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>      fib-update (yes|no)
>              If set to no, do not update the Forwarding Information Base,
>              a.k.a. the kernel routing table.  The default is yes.  Setting
>              fib-update to no will implicitly set the stub router option to
>              ensure that no traffic tries to transit via this router.
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>
I mean this would do what I want if bgpd and ospfd can't co-exist.

Regards Tony

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