generic extended communities support

2015-12-28 Thread Warren Turkal
Bird folks, Is there any chance that the transitive part of the following RFC draft will be implemented in BIRD? https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-idr-as4octet-extcomm-generic-subtype-08 I only ask as the implementation seems like it might be trivial since one can already do something like (

Re: deterministic order for include by wildcard

2015-12-28 Thread Warren Turkal
According to an IRC discussion with someone named Elrond: rv = glob(patt, GLOB_ERR | GLOB_NOESCAPE, NULL, &g); char *fname = g.gl_pathv[i]; This seems good to me. Seems like it might be useful to mention that the glob is sorted in the docs. wt On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 10:32 AM, Wa

deterministic order for include by wildcard

2015-12-28 Thread Warren Turkal
Hey folks, Do wildcards in includes resolve in a deterministic order? I'd like to just put something like the following in my bird.conf: include "/etc/bird.d/*.conf" If I do that, can I rely on 10-common.conf to be included before 20-bgp_to_other_place.conf so that I can define templates in a co

looking for some help with bgp extended communities

2015-12-01 Thread Warren Turkal
Hi networkers, I'd like to use bgp extended communities instead of communities for my routing policy so that I can use the 4-octet ASN. However, I am a bit confused by the route target vs route origin (and not having other kinds). Would it be appropriate to use the route origin (as opposed to the