[Babel-users] RIP and onlink flag [was: Babel for Quagga status]

[Juliusz Chroboczek]

>> Denis, why is this not used also by the RIP code?  This would make it
>> possible to use Linux-style unnumbered interfaces with RIP, and would
>> make RIP behave the same as RIPng.

> Well, there may be multiple places where RIP nexthops are matched
> against connected prefixes. Perhaps, it's better to convert these
> checks conditional rather than drop them, because coupling an
> open-minded RIP router with a traditional one will likely create
> one-way routes.

Could you please clarify?  I don't think that third-party announcements
are allowed in RIP.

-- Juliusz