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Re: zebra server redundancy

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Haesu)
Fri Sep 5 15:03:52 2003

Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 15:02:52 -0400
From: Haesu <haesu@towardex.com>
To: alex@pilosoft.com, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0309051331130.9414-100000@paix.pilosoft.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


> Depends on your OS. zebra will get realtime notification on Linux with 
> netlink, and on *bsd with "routing socket".

And then there are times when netlink communication dies and causes a bgp prefix
to get 'stuck' as kernel route :( hahah

Never had problems with socket/ioctl though.

-hc

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> 
> > Looks like an expect script telneting to the ospfd and removing the
> > network statement from the router ospf section is the best way, or is
> > there some more elegant mechanism people use? Thanks
> Vtysh is somewhat simpler than telnetting. 
> 
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