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-rw-r--r--nest/rt-table.c15
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/nest/rt-table.c b/nest/rt-table.c
index cb8c56a6..845b2483 100644
--- a/nest/rt-table.c
+++ b/nest/rt-table.c
@@ -1112,7 +1112,20 @@ rte_announce(rtable *tab, uint type, net *net, rte *new, rte *old,
break;
case RA_ACCEPTED:
- rt_notify_accepted(c, net, new, old, 0);
+ /*
+ * The (new != old) condition is problematic here, as it would break
+ * the second usage pattern (announcement after bulk change, used in
+ * rt_next_hop_update_net(), which sends both new and old as NULL).
+ *
+ * But recursive next hops do not work with sorted tables anyways,
+ * such configuration is forbidden in BGP and not supported in
+ * rt_notify_accepted().
+ *
+ * The condition is needed to eliminate spurious announcements where
+ * both old and new routes are not valid (so they are NULL).
+ */
+ if (new != old)
+ rt_notify_accepted(c, net, new, old, 0);
break;
case RA_MERGED: