[quagga-users 11570] Re: quagga:zebra errors on FreeBSD 6.x ...

[Marc G. Fournier]

[+freebsd-net,+quagga port maintainer]

Two questions ...

1. Is 8.x any better at this?
2. Any idea where the 'gross patch' is?



On Tue, 1 Jun 2010, Joe Greco wrote:

>> Other then appropriate interface/IP on the 7-STABLE boxes, the 7-STABLE
>> boxes all work fine ... is there an issue with em/fxp devices and zebra?
>> Or am I overlooking something in my config?
>
> It doesn't "work fine" on 7-STABLE, be warned.  It's just more subtly
> busted.
>
> I spent a little time trying to figure out whether it was FreeBSD or
> Quagga that was busted, and my conclusion that it was a little bit of
> both.  Changes made to the multicast code in FreeBSD seem to be the
> root cause; the multicast maintainer for FreeBSD doesn't seem to have
> much interest in this, or at least that was my impression, and queries
> on the Quagga list haven't had much result either.
>
> There's a patch floating around that everyone agrees is a gross hack
> and "isn't correct but seems to work."
>
> ... JG
> -- 
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