On Wed, Mar 27, 2024 at 09:08:35AM +0000, Benoit Chesneau wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I was reading the ospv3 spec and this link > https://networklessons.com/ospf/ospfv3-for-ipv4- and was wondering if such > features is supported in bird 2. Can we announce loopbacks via OSPFv3 and > remove the need to use OSPFv2 and ptp subnets ? > > I see it as a good opportunity to reduce the usage of the IPv4 addresses if > we can just advertise loopbacks...
Hi This feature was not implemented in BIRD 2, i just implemented it yesterday: https://gitlab.nic.cz/labs/bird/-/commit/280daed57d061eb1ebc89013637c683fe23465e8 If there is no IPv4 address on the iface, it chooses an IPv4 address from another OSPF-managed iface (preferably /32 or stub) and announces that. -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Ondrej 'Santiago' Zajicek (email: santi...@crfreenet.org) "To err is human -- to blame it on a computer is even more so."
