On 2018-04-27 21:47, Maximilian Wilhelm wrote: > This way it's easy to have different direct protocols in bird and > easily tag, filter and/or announce prefixes within your network > accordingly. real loopback IPs are part of the IGP (OSPF), both 2 and > 3 are read by instances of protocol direct and distributed by (i)BGP.
I didn't consider that, but it looks like an interesting approach. Reading the bird documentation, it slightly discourages from using the direct protocol: > The question is whether it is a good idea to have such device routes > in BIRD routing table. OS kernel usually handles device routes for > directly connected networks by itself so we don't need (and don't want) > to export these routes to the kernel protocol. OSPF protocol creates > device routes for its interfaces itself and BGP protocol is usually used > for exporting aggregate routes. But the Direct protocol is necessary for > distance-vector protocols like RIP or Babel to announce local networks. Though, I'll definitely be trying it out. Cheers, Wilhelm.
