[Babel-users] Babel in Bird 1.6.0

Vasiliy Tolstov v.tolstov at selfip.ru
Sun May 1 17:51:39 UTC 2016


Do you have plans in near feature create ipv4 support?in this case I can
drop bird and use only bird6 for ipv4/ipv6 routes inside my network.
1 Май 2016 г. 16:14 пользователь "Toke Høiland-Jørgensen" <toke at toke.dk>
написал:

> Ondrej Zajicek <santiago at crfreenet.org> writes:
>
> >> Right, yeah, the overflow check is done on the specified values not
> >> their centisecond equivalents. Oops.
> >
> > IMHO the reasonable way would be to keep such values (intervals)
> > internally in Babel native time units (centiseconds) and only convert
> > to BIRD units when appropriate (when mixed with bird_clock_t values).
>
> That would work. Also thought about using the expr_us mechanism in the
> config parser code. However, both of those would break existing
> configurations (not that there are many at this point; but the principle
> remains). What is your policy on that?
>
> Also, since we can't actually schedule things at a granularity finer
> than seconds, setting a lower value would just result in announcing
> deadlines we then cannot meet, which is bound to break things. So for
> the time being I think keeping it the way it is would be best, no?
>
> -Toke
>
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