[Babel-users] Source-specific routes [was: atomic updates...]

[Henning Rogge]

 We have run into the same thing a few years ago, source IP selection
in IPv6 is always done by the kernel, not the user. Seems to be a
"feature", not a bug.

Henning

On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 10:05 PM, Juliusz Chroboczek
<jch at pps.univ-paris-diderot.fr> wrote:
>> It's not ECMP for ipv6 I'm looking to see solved for multiple routing
>> protocols, but the multiple ipv6 prefixes/multiple exits source
>> routing problem.
>
> As you well know, Dave, we've been working on that for the last
> fortnight or so.
>
> We've run into a limitation of the kernel:
>
>   http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg235316.html
>
> Unfortunately, I've had no reply to my question:
>
>   http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg235346.html
>
> So it looks like we're going to have to dynamically generate rule
> table entries... sigh.
>
>> The homenet folk demonstrated this form of ipv6 multihoming working
>> (using a version of OSPF and BIRD, I believe) at the last ietf.
>
> That is interesting.  Would you happen to know how they're interfacing
> with the kernel?  Or perhaps have a link to their code?
>
> -- Juliusz
>
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