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 a
On 2018-04-27 17:48, Grant Taylor wrote:
> On 04/27/2018 02:52 AM, Wilhelm Schuster wrote:
>> Hi,
>
> Hi,
Thank you for the explanation.
>> What I’m struggling with is understanding the differences between both
>> interface types (besides the obvious difference in pac
IPv6 link and
thus won't be able to reach another host (since the v6 spec requires
interfaces to at least have a link-local address).
> On 04/27/2018 10:52 AM, Wilhelm Schuster wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I’m learning about IP-networking and am in the process of setting up a Linux
Hi,
I’m learning about IP-networking and am in the process of setting up a Linux
router using bird. During my research I’ve come across the usage of loopback
interfaces. I could gather that this is done, because Ethernet interfaces for
example (in contrast to loopbacks) can go down making the a
