Quagga OSPF binds to wrong interface on FreeBSD 7

Tom Judge tom at tomjudge.com
Wed Sep 10 17:19:45 UTC 2008


Bruce M. Simpson wrote:
> Bruce M. Simpson wrote:
>>
>>    I understand that this situation has dragged on for some 18 months 
>> since changes went into 7.x. I'm sorry to hear about the problems 
>> you're having. I can't speak for Quagga as I haven't worked on it in 
>> many years, nor can I speak for the Quagga patch.
>>
>
> I looked at the sockopt.c.diff patch briefly last night on my free 
> time. It is a quick and dirty bandaid by the looks of it which just 
> munges the socket options. It may "work for you", I haven't tested it 
> as I don't run Quagga.
>
> BTW: The RFC 1724 hack was never actually documented, so code which 
> relies on it is buggy and needs to be fixed. I published a patch for 
> routed here nearly 18 months ago, which is probably where Quagga 
> picked up the hack from.

The patch works for us in production,  we currently have 6 routers 
running the patch with ~30 interfaces each.

Tom J


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