I have now compiled gated (tried on another machine and it went no problems, thought they were the same config....strange), and got it running---good. I have installed it on our internet exchange and it listens to BGP nicely, including supernets---very good (no other OS's can do that, that we have).
However: it does not seem to understand variable length subnet masks, as given to it by the BGP server? Instead it sets the BGP server as it's next hop for those nets. I would MOST like to solve this. Is it a problem with gated (I used "options VARIABLE_MASKS"), or is it a kernel feature I need to explicitly turn on? The way most of our other hosts cope with this problem is that they receive a redirect from the BGP server so that they get the correct route next time. However my linux machine doesn't seem to learn these redirect routes and continues to go the long way for these nets every single time! This is not fatal, just rather inefficient! This would not be an issue if the first problem was solved but, if it can't be, this would be a second best option ;-) Does anyone have solutions to these? PLease reply by email as well...TIA 8<--------------------------------------->8 Richard Shepherd ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 8<--------------------------------------->8 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
