Re: New release 1.3.4!

2011-10-10 Thread Neil Wilson
On Mon, 2011-10-10 at 16:37 +0200, Ondrej Filip wrote: But the good thing is that the Debian packaging is kept in the git as well and can be accessed via browser at: You're also welcome to use the mirror I have on Launchpad. https://code.launchpad.net/bird There are bazaar code branches on

Re: init script

2011-07-27 Thread Neil Wilson
On Tue, 2011-07-26 at 20:43 -0400, Ryan Whelan wrote: This is perfect. I don't remember why I compiled from source, but thats why I missed them; I didn't use the bin packages. There are upstart files for bird here: https://build.opensuse.org/package/files?package=birdproject=home% 3Awilsonn

Re: Slow static reconfigure

2011-07-14 Thread Neil Wilson
On Wed, 2011-07-13 at 23:10 +0200, Ondrej Zajicek wrote: How many static routes do you have? I have potentially a few hundred thousand routes - that can't be summarised for various reasons and tend to change a lot. A situation that the standard routing protocols were not designed to handle.

Re: Slow static reconfigure

2011-07-13 Thread Neil Wilson
On Wed, 2011-07-13 at 13:24 +0200, Ondrej Zajicek wrote: Quick workaround would be split these routes to several static protocols (for examle one per hundred routes). Yep, that works like magic. Down to 2 seconds from six minutes! Thanks Neil

Slow static reconfigure

2011-07-12 Thread Neil Wilson
Hi all, Loading a large set of prefixes into the static protocol is pretty quick, but reconfiguring is really slow. The current implementation uses linked lists which are traversed lots of times during the reconfiguration. I was wondering if these could be indexed and sorted in some way with

Re: Open socket on OSPF Stub interfaces

2011-07-05 Thread Neil Wilson
On Tue, 2011-07-05 at 11:16 +0200, Ondrej Zajicek wrote: No, it is completely pointless. This is one thing i would like to fix soon. If you have a static list of IP/prefixes, one workaround is to activate OSPF just on non-stub interfaces/prefixes and add stub prefixes using 'stubnet' option.

Re: LSA Update checksum breaks with large LSA Updates

2011-07-04 Thread Neil Wilson
On Mon, 2011-07-04 at 00:23 +0200, Ondrej Zajicek wrote: Thanks for a bugreport. There was a bug in checksum calculating function. The patch is attached. That's done the trick. Many thanks Rgs Neil

Open socket on OSPF Stub interfaces

2011-07-04 Thread Neil Wilson
Hi, Is there a way of turning off the socket listen for OSPF interfaces marked as 'stub'? At the moment I'm running up against the 1024 open file limit on servers (such as VM hosts) with lots of interfaces. I could alter the ulimit but it seems a bit of a waste to have all those open sockets