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+Core
+~~~~
+- route validation
+- fake multipath?
+- config file: symbolic constants?
+- counters (according to SNMP MIB?)
+- generation of subnet mask ICMP's for v6?
+- debugging dumps and protocol tracing!
+- unaligned accesses?
+
+
+RIP
+~~~
+- RIP: export-only and import-only mode?
+- drop RIPv1 (Historic protocol)?
+
+OSPF
+~~~~
+
+Almquist & Kastenholz                                         [Page 111]
+RFC 1716          Towards Requirements for IP Routers      November 1994
+
+
+7.2.2.2  Specific Issues
+
+         Virtual Links
+
+              There is a minor error in the specification that can cause
+              routing loops when all of the following conditions are
+              simultaneously true:
+
+              (1)  A virtual link is configured through a transit area,
+
+              (2)  Two separate paths exist, each having the same
+                   endpoints, but one utilizing only non-virtual
+                   backbone links, and the other using links in the
+                   transit area, and
+
+              (3)  The latter path is part of the (underlying physical
+                   representation of the) configured virtual link,
+                   routing loops may occur.
+
+              To prevent this, an implementation of OSPF SHOULD invoke
+              the calculation in Section 16.3 of [ROUTE:1] whenever any
+              part of the path to the destination is a virtual link (the
+              specification only says this is necessary when the first
+              hop is a virtual link).
+
+BGP
+~~~
+- BGP:
+	- in, local, out RIB
+	- maxsize=4096
+	- BGP identifier aka router id
+	- removal of loops
+	- aggregation, ATOMIC_AGGREGATE
+	- communities
+	- confederations
+	- attributes must be sorted!
+	- re-export of NEXT_HOP attribute
+	- BGP session over currently down interface
+	- route flap dampening?
+	- LOCAL_PREF attribute
+	- error notification received -> log error
+	- set TTL to 1 (configurable?)
+	- consulting IGP for next-hop information? (what if it changes?)
+	- inter-advertisement delay???!
+	- normalize (sort) incoming AS-SET's
+	- maximum length of AS paths
+
+	- expected neighbor AS
+	- hold time
+	- idle timer after error: initial value, exponential growth, maximum value
+
+- address testing macros (ALL_ZEROS)
+- all internal tables are in network order (?)
+- logging of errors and debug dumps
+- filter: logging of dropped routes (?)
+- limitation of memory consumption: per-process and total
+- alloca
+- precedence of all packets (incl. TCP)
+- adding of route: clear all bits not covered by masklen
+- switch: generate default route only if at least one BGP connection exists
+
+- route update: new, change, remove
+- route recalculation timing
+
+- CONFIG_TOS
+- CONFIG_MULTIPATH
+
+- reconfiguration without restart of all protocols?
+- change of interface address: ??? (down and up?)
+- "generate default route" switch for all IGP's
+
+- RIPv2:
+	- Route Tag
+	- limit routing table xfer (frequency, only to neighbors)
+	- multicast on/off
+	- remember routes for all neighbors?
+
+- BGP:
+	- import of IGP routes (use external route tags from OSPF)
+
+- Interface:
+	- RIP metric
+	- multicast capability flag
+	- MTU
+	- OSPF metrics (per-TOS)
+
+- running protocol on an interface:
+	- interface is not required to exist
+	- can specify a wildcard pattern or an interface list
+
+- preferences:
+	- directly connected
+	- static
+	- OSPF internal, OSPF ext type 1 (comparable metrics), OSPF inter-area
+	- RIP
+	- BGP
+	- OSPF ext type 2
+	- sink
+
+- lib:
+	- MD5
+
+- OSPF:
+	- Dijkstra: use Fibonacci heaps?
+	- point-to-point interface with address: advertise as stub network
+	- static routes: stub networks?
+	- modes: PtP, PtP-unnumbered, Broadcast, NBMA, point-to-multipoint
+	- importing of device routes for networks where we don't run OSPF
+	- tie breaking for equal type 2 ext metrics by using internal (type 1) metric
+	- SPF tree recalc timing (per-area timers?)
+	- aggregation: specify network list for each area
+	- stub area: either no external routes or only default route
+	- automatic generation of external route tags (RFC1403) -- what about
+	  using the same rule for RIPv2? [shared code?]
+
+- timers - one-shot and periodic, resolution 1 sec, randomized
+- re-configuration: restart of routing protocols (shutdown mode)
+- route: originating AS
+
+- Check incoming packets and log errors!!