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| author | Ondrej Zajicek (work) <santiago@crfreenet.org> | 2020-12-02 05:02:26 +0100 |
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| committer | Ondrej Zajicek (work) <santiago@crfreenet.org> | 2020-12-02 05:02:26 +0100 |
| commit | 8cc5bb09e344038a1f8dff96946e05ec80607c93 (patch) | |
| tree | 5c7d1f192d4d7654d40282822c639c887aaaffda /doc | |
| parent | 246586771296d1c42a012c06bdc75b36a7ce0b4f (diff) | |
Filter: Add 'weight' route attribute
Add 'weight' route attribute that allows to get and set ECMP weight of
nexthops. Similar to 'gw' attribute, it is limited to the first nexthop,
but it is useful for handling BGP multipath, where an ECMP route is
merged from multiple regular routes.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/bird.sgml | 9 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/bird.sgml b/doc/bird.sgml index 05216c4a..5408cb2a 100644 --- a/doc/bird.sgml +++ b/doc/bird.sgml @@ -1674,6 +1674,15 @@ Common route attributes are: creation/removal. Zero is returned for routes with undefined outgoing interfaces. Read-only. + <tag><label id="rta-weight"><m/int/ weight</tag> + Multipath weight of route next hops. Valid values are 1-256. Reading + returns the weight of the first next hop, setting it sets weights of all + next hops to the specified value. Therefore, this attribute is not much + useful for manipulating individual next hops of an ECMP route, but can + be used in BGP multipath setup to set weights of individual routes that + are merged to one ECMP route during export to the Kernel protocol + (with active <ref id="krt-merge-paths" name="marge paths"> option). + <tag><label id="rta-igp-metric"><m/int/ igp_metric</tag> The optional attribute that can be used to specify a distance to the network for routes that do not have a native protocol metric attribute |