Re: Feature requests

2011-07-11 Thread Ondrej Zajicek
On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 04:19:47PM +0300, Alexander Shikoff wrote: > I would like to ask for support of invertion of (pair) sets. > In past year we discussed that > http://marc.info/?l=bird-users&m=128445986230853&w=2 Hello Instead of set invertion, which has some problems, i implemented clist f

Re: Feature requests

2011-07-04 Thread Ruben Laban
On Monday 02 May 2011 at 21:53 (CET), Ondrej Zajicek wrote: > We (BIRD developers) would like to know which major features you miss in > BIRD and would like to be implemented. ... > .. or perhaps no new big features, just some more work to already > implemented areas? or perhaps some "minor" feat

Re: Feature requests

2011-05-18 Thread Alex Bligh
--On 18 May 2011 10:02:18 +0200 Tore Anderson wrote: FWIW, Keepalived's VRRP implementation has a feature which allows it to 1) specify any arbitrary source address in the VRRP hellos, e.g. the loopback interface's, and 2) define the virtual address with a netmask. That sounds useful. T

Re: Feature requests

2011-05-18 Thread Matthew Walster
On 18 May 2011 09:02, Tore Anderson wrote: > Also, I believe it is HSRP that's patent encumbered, not VRRP. HSRP is a proprietary Cisco technology that is (largely) unimplemented outside of the Cisco world. The IETF standard is VRRP but that *is* patent encumbered. See section 4.4 in the IETF Dr

Re: Feature requests

2011-05-18 Thread Tore Anderson
* Alex Bligh > We would be interested in a sane implementation of VRRP. We'd also > be even more interested in other interfaces redundancy protocols that > do not "waste" IP addresses (e.g. do not use IP addresses for the > native interfaces). One problem with VRRP is that it is allegedly > patent

Re: Feature requests

2011-05-18 Thread Tore Anderson
Hi Ondrej, * Ondrej Zajicek > VRRP: > Maybe. Is there any advantage if it is integrated in routing daemon > (instead of using independent VRRP daemon)? See below. > MPLS/VRF support: > That looks interesting, but i doubt that many people uses that on Linux > - for example MPLS forwarding for Li

Re: Feature requests

2011-05-17 Thread Alex Bligh
--On 17 May 2011 22:36:40 +0300 Ziyad Basheer wrote: I am curious, what is the deal breaker about VRRP requirement of having participating interfaces besides that it's two less addresses from your DHCP pool? We allocate /29s to the (thousands of) networks in question. 1 for broadcast, 1 f

Re: Feature requests

2011-05-17 Thread Ziyad Basheer
I am curious, what is the deal breaker about VRRP requirement of having participating interfaces besides that it's two less addresses from your DHCP pool? Ziyad Basheer On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 1:53 PM, Alex Bligh wrote: > Ondrej, > > --On 16 May 2011 21:59:56 +0200 Ondrej Zajicek > wrote: > >

Re: Feature requests

2011-05-17 Thread Alex Bligh
--On 17 May 2011 17:00:07 +0530 Allan Pinto wrote: maybe ucarp ? http://www.ucarp.org/project/ucarp Thanks. I looked at that and rejected it and now can't remember why. I will try again. -- Alex Bligh

Re: Feature requests

2011-05-17 Thread Allan Pinto
maybe ucarp ? http://www.ucarp.org/project/ucarp On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 4:23 PM, Alex Bligh wrote: > Ondrej, > > --On 16 May 2011 21:59:56 +0200 Ondrej Zajicek > wrote: > >> NSSA: >> This seems to be, surprisingly for me, the most requested >> feature, as it does not look hard to implement i wi

Re: Feature requests

2011-05-17 Thread Alex Bligh
Ondrej, --On 16 May 2011 21:59:56 +0200 Ondrej Zajicek wrote: NSSA: This seems to be, surprisingly for me, the most requested feature, as it does not look hard to implement i will probably implement that in near future. Thanks VRRP: Maybe. Is there any advantage if it is integrated in ro

Re: Feature requests

2011-05-17 Thread Martin Mares
Hello! > BGP peer group: > What exactly this should solve? If just common defaults, then i think > that with common filters and copy/paste in editor (or config file > generated by a script) there is not a real reason for peer groups. But > perhaps some generic tool for sharing common defaults woul

Re: Feature requests

2011-05-16 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
On May 16, 2011, at 12:59, Ondrej Zajicek wrote: > VRRP: > Maybe. Is there any advantage if it is integrated in routing daemon > (instead of using independent VRRP daemon)? I would guess that there > isn't any interaction between VRRP and routing, but i don't have any > experience with VRRP. We

Re: Feature requests

2011-05-16 Thread Ondrej Zajicek
Hello Thanks for all the answers. Here are comments to received requests: NSSA: This seems to be, surprisingly for me, the most requested feature, as it does not look hard to implement i will probably implement that in near future. BFD: As suggested in the first mail, i will probably implement

Re: Feature requests

2011-05-16 Thread Ondrej Zajicek
On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 04:19:47PM +0300, Alexander Shikoff wrote: > On Mon, May 02, 2011 at 09:53:39PM +0200, Ondrej Zajicek wrote: > > Hello > > > > We (BIRD developers) would like to know which major features you miss in > > BIRD and would like to be implemented. If you have some opinions on th

Re: Feature requests

2011-05-16 Thread Ondrej Zajicek
On Thu, May 05, 2011 at 11:13:02AM +0200, Ondrej Filip wrote: > >> A few weeks ago I had presentation about BIRD at Netnod meeting. I > >> asked very similar question and surprisingly a lot of people requested > >> IS-IS. Is here somebody also interested in this protocol? > > > > Our organizatio

Re: Feature requests

2011-05-12 Thread Alexander Shikoff
On Mon, May 02, 2011 at 09:53:39PM +0200, Ondrej Zajicek wrote: > Hello > > We (BIRD developers) would like to know which major features you miss in > BIRD and would like to be implemented. If you have some opinions on that > issue, please write suggested features together with several sentences >

Re: Feature requests

2011-05-06 Thread Stefan Hellermann
Am 06.05.2011 01:44, schrieb Ondrej Zajicek: > On Thu, May 05, 2011 at 11:37:57PM +0200, Stefan Hellermann wrote: >> I have one feature request besides new protocols: Support the source >> attribute of routing table entries in linux. It's only important for >> udp-connections to a router running bi

Re: Feature requests

2011-05-05 Thread Ondrej Zajicek
On Thu, May 05, 2011 at 11:37:57PM +0200, Stefan Hellermann wrote: > I have one feature request besides new protocols: Support the source > attribute of routing table entries in linux. It's only important for > udp-connections to a router running bird. Already implemented in v1.3.1, see route attr

Re: Feature requests

2011-05-05 Thread Stefan Hellermann
I have one feature request besides new protocols: Support the source attribute of routing table entries in linux. It's only important for udp-connections to a router running bird. Example: Two router (A and B) with bird on them, a lan connected to each one and a VPN link between them. OSPF is used

Re: Feature requests

2011-05-05 Thread Ondrej Filip
On 5.5.2011 10:57, Oleg wrote: > On Tue, May 03, 2011 at 04:03:20PM +0200, Ondrej Filip wrote: >> On 2.5.2011 21:53, Ondrej Zajicek wrote: >>> Hello >>> >> >> A few weeks ago I had presentation about BIRD at Netnod meeting. I >> asked very similar question and surprisingly a lot of people requested

Re: Feature requests

2011-05-03 Thread Alex Bligh
--On 3 May 2011 08:45:10 +0200 csszep wrote: Privilege separation and running bird as non root. FWIW I have had success running bird in a container (unshare -n) on Linux, though you need to run birdc in the same container. -- Alex Bligh

Re: Feature requests

2011-05-03 Thread Ondrej Zajicek
On Tue, May 03, 2011 at 11:05:16AM -0700, Marty Anstey wrote: > > > * BFD - very useful for fast failure detection when peering through non- > > direct connection (e.g. like an internet exchange) > > > > > > * Link-state dependent routes - I remember this was discussed on the > > list a while back

Re: Feature requests

2011-05-03 Thread Marty Anstey
> * BFD - very useful for fast failure detection when peering through non- > direct connection (e.g. like an internet exchange) > > > * Link-state dependent routes - I remember this was discussed on the > list a while back. If a physical link goes down, all routes and > adjacencies dependent on th

Re: Feature requests

2011-05-03 Thread Ondrej Filip
On 2.5.2011 21:53, Ondrej Zajicek wrote: > Hello > A few weeks ago I had presentation about BIRD at Netnod meeting. I asked very similar question and surprisingly a lot of people requested IS-IS. Is here somebody also interested in this protocol? Ondrej > We (BIRD devel

Re: Feature requests

2011-05-03 Thread Tore Anderson
* Ondrej Zajicek > We (BIRD developers) would like to know which major features you miss in > BIRD and would like to be implemented. Hi, I'm not currently using BIRD at all (due to the lack of OSPF NSSA support), so this is free from memory from when I was evaluating it, so apologies if any of t

Re: Feature requests

2011-05-03 Thread Fedor Dikarev
On 03.05.2011 01:48, Ondrej Zajicek wrote: > On Mon, May 02, 2011 at 11:56:20PM +0400, Fedor Dikarev wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I'm very interested in OSPF NSSA: we use it to allow our PC-routers to >> inform CORE-routers about availability of services. We don't want our >> PC-routers to calculate

Re: Feature requests

2011-05-03 Thread Mathias Wolkert
BGP dynamic neighbors using subnet ranges. /Tias On 5/2/11 21:53 , Ondrej Zajicek wrote: Hello We (BIRD developers) would like to know which major features you miss in BIRD and would like to be implemented. If you have some opinions on that issue, please write suggested features together with

Re: Feature requests

2011-05-02 Thread csszep
Privilege separation and running bird as non root.

RE: Feature requests

2011-05-02 Thread Anibe Onuche
Zajicek Sent: Monday, May 02, 2011 8:54 PM To: bird-us...@network.cz Subject: Feature requests Hello We (BIRD developers) would like to know which major features you miss in BIRD and would like to be implemented. If you have some opinions on that issue, please write suggested features together with

Re: Feature requests

2011-05-02 Thread Ondrej Zajicek
On Mon, May 02, 2011 at 11:56:20PM +0400, Fedor Dikarev wrote: > Hello, > > I'm very interested in OSPF NSSA: we use it to allow our PC-routers to > inform CORE-routers about availability of services. We don't want our > PC-routers to calculate topology, so we have to put them in stub area. >

Re: Feature requests

2011-05-02 Thread Marco d'Itri
On May 02, Ondrej Zajicek wrote: > BGP extended communities As an IX operator I would like to see this. > MRT routing table dumps And as the zebra-dump-parser author, I think that some people would find this useful as well. :-) > Static routes depedent on ping reachability I do not really see B

Re: Feature requests

2011-05-02 Thread Alex Bligh
--On 2 May 2011 23:56:20 +0400 Fedor Dikarev wrote: I'm very interested in OSPF NSSA +1. Similar reasons. In this case because I want OSPF to advertise static device routes, but don't want to carry the whole DB. I suspect with hackery this could actually done without NSSA by treating them a

Re: Feature requests

2011-05-02 Thread Fedor Dikarev
Hello, I'm very interested in OSPF NSSA: we use it to allow our PC-routers to inform CORE-routers about availability of services. We don't want our PC-routers to calculate topology, so we have to put them in stub area. But we need them to redistribute routes, so it must be NSSA area. It will

Re: Feature requests

2011-05-02 Thread Arnold Nipper
on 02.05.2011 21:53 Ondrej Zajicek wrote: > and implement Route Origin Authorization / RPKI drafts for BGP. > excellent idea! Still reminds me that I owe you all a dinner! Please let me know when it would be most convenient. Arnold -- Arnold Nipper / nIPper consulting, Sandhausen, Germany em

Feature requests

2011-05-02 Thread Ondrej Zajicek
Hello We (BIRD developers) would like to know which major features you miss in BIRD and would like to be implemented. If you have some opinions on that issue, please write suggested features together with several sentences about why you think that is the feature we should implement or why you need