[Babel-users] babeld slashes kernel route manipulation performance by 17000%

[Toke Høiland-Jørgensen]

Daniel Gröber <dxld at darkboxed.org> writes:

> On Thu, Apr 14, 2022 at 08:58:53PM +0200, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen wrote:
>> Side note: why is bird replacing all the routes in the first place? :)
>
> FYI: I figured this out in the end. Turns out I had the BGP sessions in
> bird configured as `multihop 1`/direct with global scope addressess that
> babel would (sometimes) re-route indirectly. Every time that happens the
> BGP session would then break :)
>
> I use link-locals now, much better. Doesn't really make sense to re-route
> the BGP session endoints haha.

Haha, right then! Yeah, better to not reroute your BGP peers... :P

-Toke