Re: gated file
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
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Richard Shepherd (richards@waikato.ac.nz)
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