[Babel-users] bird version interop issues

Juliusz Chroboczek jch at irif.fr
Mon Nov 12 18:02:56 GMT 2018


>>>> No router-ID and next-hop before first Update?

>>> The updates are retractions, so those are not needed...

>> You're right.  Babeld always sends a router-id, even for a retraction, so
>> the code that parses retractions in babeld might be too strict.

I can confirm it's babeld not being compliant with the spec, and BIRD
doing the right thing.  Which is interesting, given that I wrote both
babeld and the spec.

(It's not a big deal -- it's just BIRD's retractions that will be
spuriously dropped by babeld, so I'm not going to rush a fix.)

-- Juliusz





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