Route Flapping and Bird - RFD and MRAI

2021-07-08 Thread Douglas Fischer
Hello all. Last weeks I'm noticing the increase the increase of BGP messages on some routers that I have access to. Specially those connected to IXPs with a considerable number of participants. I Checked and the BGP process has increased a bit the use of CPU Also. So, I suspect that Route-Servers

Re: direct routes and SLAAC addresses

2021-07-08 Thread Ondrej Zajicek
On Thu, Jul 08, 2021 at 10:56:18AM +0100, George Ross wrote: > Many thanks for answering my stubnet question a couple of weeks or so back. > I have a supplementary direct-protocol question now... > > We have a Linux router running BIRD 2.0.8. It has some interfaces on which > we configure IPv6

Re: BIRD 2.0 Syntax issue with defined()

2021-07-08 Thread Elmar K. Bins
Hi Ondrej, santi...@crfreenet.org (Ondrej Zajicek) wrote: > > Am I wrongly assuming that defined() would check for the variable to exist > > within BIRD's global scope (e.g., appear in the namespace)? > > No, defined() checks for whether given route attribute is defined for the > current route.

Re: BIRD 2.0 Syntax issue with defined()

2021-07-08 Thread Ondrej Zajicek
On Thu, Jul 08, 2021 at 01:53:21PM +0200, Elmar K. Bins wrote: > Hello fellows, > > I have my bird config failing on something as trivial as > > if defined (some_variable_never_defined) > then ... ; > > with "syntax error, unexpected CF_SYM_UNDEFINED" on the "some_...". > > Am I wrongly assum

BIRD 2.0 Syntax issue with defined()

2021-07-08 Thread Elmar K. Bins
Hello fellows, I have my bird config failing on something as trivial as if defined (some_variable_never_defined) then ... ; with "syntax error, unexpected CF_SYM_UNDEFINED" on the "some_...". Am I wrongly assuming that defined() would check for the variable to exist within BIRD's global scope

direct routes and SLAAC addresses

2021-07-08 Thread George Ross
Many thanks for answering my stubnet question a couple of weeks or so back. I have a supplementary direct-protocol question now... We have a Linux router running BIRD 2.0.8. It has some interfaces on which we configure IPv6 addresses statically. We turn off auto-configuration, but, due to a r