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| author | Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> | 2000-05-29 11:22:43 +0000 |
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| committer | Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> | 2000-05-29 11:22:43 +0000 |
| commit | 98627595fb4223991d60f809bbeac98cf34aabfb (patch) | |
| tree | fe750ce3a48f4d0e47034deec4c4f2dd9adace8d /doc | |
| parent | d247d261e55bec7fadfef89c39ca3257816af771 (diff) | |
Better description of how route is selected.
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/bird.sgml | 21 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/doc/bird.sgml b/doc/bird.sgml index 4475d0f1..9a025185 100644 --- a/doc/bird.sgml +++ b/doc/bird.sgml @@ -60,11 +60,13 @@ configuration primitives, <cf> is fragment of configuration within normal <sect1>About routing tables <p>Bird has one or more routing tables. Each routing table contains -list of known routes. Each route has certain attributes, most important -is prefix of network this route is for. Routing table maintains more -than one entry for network, but at most one entry for one network and -one protocol. The entry with biggest preference is used for -routing. You can get list of route attributes in "Route attributes" +list of known routes. Each route has certain attributes, most +important is prefix of network this route is for. Routing table +maintains more than one entry for network, but at most one entry for +one network and one protocol. The entry with biggest preference is +used for routing. If there are more entries with same preference and +they are from same protocol, protocol decides (typically according to +metrics). You can get list of route attributes in "Route attributes" section in filters. <sect>Configuration @@ -109,9 +111,12 @@ protocol rip { <tag>log "<m/filename/"|syslog|stderr all|{ <m/list of classes/ }</tag> set logging of classes (either all or <cf/{ error, trace }/ etc.) into selected destination. Classes are: - <cf/debug/ for debugging message, <cf/trace/, <cf/info/, - <cf/remote/ for messages about misbehavior of remote side, <cf/warning/, - <cf/error/, <cf/auth/, <cf/fatal/, <cf/bug/ for internal bugs + <cf/info/, <cf/warning/, <cf/error/, <cf/fatal/ for messages about local problems + <cf/debug/ for debugging messages, + <cf/trace/ when you want to know what happens on network, + <cf/remote/ for messages about misbehavior of remote side, + <cf/auth/ about authentication failures, + <cf/bug/ for internal bugs of BIRD. You may specify more than one <cf/log/ line to log to multiple destinations. |