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authorOndrej Zajicek (work) <santiago@crfreenet.org>2018-08-07 14:46:24 +0200
committerOndrej Zajicek (work) <santiago@crfreenet.org>2018-08-07 14:46:24 +0200
commitd33cf3f4c3a92f895e8b52fc19ed8a88f350a32b (patch)
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parent5bd734317c05008a66eefaa14fc98a6d533cf9ef (diff)
Doc: Fix notes related to obsolete option
Thanks to Julien Dessaux for the report.
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@@ -2848,14 +2848,6 @@ itself and BGP protocol is usually used for exporting aggregate routes. But the
Direct protocol is necessary for distance-vector protocols like RIP or Babel to
announce local networks.
-<p>There is one notable case when you definitely want to use the direct protocol
--- running BIRD on BSD systems. Having high priority device routes for directly
-connected networks from the direct protocol protects kernel device routes from
-being overwritten or removed by IGP routes during some transient network
-conditions, because a lower priority IGP route for the same network is not
-exported to the kernel routing table. This is an issue on BSD systems only, as
-on Linux systems BIRD cannot change non-BIRD route in the kernel routing table.
-
<p>There are just few configuration options for the Direct protocol:
<p><descrip>
@@ -2900,14 +2892,10 @@ interface) or whether an `alien' route has been added by someone else (depending
on the <cf/learn/ switch, such routes are either ignored or accepted to our
table).
-<p>Unfortunately, there is one thing that makes the routing table synchronization
-a bit more complicated. In the kernel routing table there are also device routes
-for directly connected networks. These routes are usually managed by OS itself
-(as a part of IP address configuration) and we don't want to touch that. They
-are completely ignored during the scan of the kernel tables and also the export
-of device routes from BIRD tables to kernel routing tables is restricted to
-prevent accidental interference. This restriction can be disabled using
-<cf/device routes/ switch.
+<p>Note that routes created by OS kernel itself, namely direct routes
+representing IP subnets of associated interfaces, are not imported even with
+<cf/learn/ enabled. You can use <ref id="direct" name="Direct protocol"> to
+generate these direct routes.
<p>If your OS supports only a single routing table, you can configure only one
instance of the Kernel protocol. If it supports multiple tables (in order to