Hostcache is a structure for monitoring changes in a routing table that
is used for routes with dynamic/recursive next hops. This is needed for
proper iBGP next hop handling.
In usual configuration, such export is already restricted
with the aid of the direct protocol but there are some
races that can circumvent it. This makes it harder to
break kernel device routes. Also adds an option to
disable this restriction.
When device protocol goes down, interfaces should be flushed
asynchronously (in the same way like routes from protocols are flushed),
when protocol goes to DOWN/HUNGRY.
This fixes the problem with static routes staying in kernel routing
table after BIRD shutdown.
- BSD kernel syncer is now self-conscious and can learn alien routes
- important bugfix in BSD kernel syncer (crash after protocol restart)
- many minor changes and bugfixes in kernel syncers and neighbor cache
- direct protocol does not generate host and link local routes
- min_scope check is removed, all routes have SCOPE_UNIVERSE by default
- also fixes some remaining compiler warnings
It seems that by adding one pipe-specific exception to route
announcement code and by adding one argument to rt_notify() callback i
could completely eliminate the need for the phantom protocol instance
and therefore make the code more straightforward. It will also fix some
minor bugs (like ignoring debug flag changes from the command line).
When uncofiguring the pipe and the peer table, the peer table was
unlocked when pipe protocol state changed to down/flushing and not to
down/hungry. This leads to the removal of the peer table before
the routes from the pipe were flushed.
The fix leads to adding some pipe-specific hacks to the nest,
but this seems inevitable.
If protocol announces a route, route is accepted by import filter to
routing table, and later it announces replacement of that route that is
rejected by import filter, old route remains in routing table.
ea_same() sometimes returns true for different route attributes,
which caused that hash table in BGP does not work correctly and
some routes were sent with different attributes.
Allows to add more interface patterns to one common 'options'
section like:
interface "eth3", "eth4" { options common to eth3 and eth4 };
Also removes undocumented and unnecessary ability to specify
more interface patterns with different 'options' sections:
interface "eth3" { options ... }, "eth4" { options ... };
Old AS path maching supposes thath AS number appears
only once in AS path, but that is not true. It also
contains some bugs related to AS path sets.
New code does not use any assumptions about semantic
structure of AS path. It is asymptotically slower than
the old code, but on real paths it is not significant.
It also allows '?' for matching one arbitrary AS number.
Cryptographic authentication in OSPF is defective by
design - there might be several packets independently
sent to the network (for example HELLO, LSUPD and LSACK)
where they might be reordered and that causes crypt.
sequence number error.
That can be workarounded by not incresing sequence number
too often. Now we update it only when last packet was sent
before at least one second. This can constitute a risk of
replay attacks, but RFC supposes something similar (like time
in seconds used as CSN).
Routes comming through pipe from primary to secondary table were
filtered by both EXPORT and IMPORT filters, but they should be
only filtered by EXPORT filters.
AS4 optional attribute errors were handled by session
drop (according to BGP RFC). This patch implements
error handling according to new BGP AS4 draft (*)
- ignoring invalid AS4 optional attributes.
(*) http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-chen-rfc4893bis-02.txt
The core state machine was broken - it didn't free resources
in START -> DOWN transition and might freed resources after
UP -> STOP transition before protocol turned down. It leads
to deadlock on olock acquisition when lock was not freed
during previous stop.
The current behavior is that resources, allocated during
DOWN -> * transition, are freed in * -> DOWN transition,
and flushing (scheduled in UP -> *) just counteract
feeding (scheduled in * -> UP). Protocol fell down
when both flushing is done (if needed) and protocol
reports DOWN.
BTW, is thera a reason why neighbour cache item acquired
by protocol is not tracked by resource mechanism?
When protocol started, feeding was scheduled. If protocol
got down before feeding was executed, then function
responsible for connecting protocol to kernel routing
tables was called after the function responsible for
disconnecting, then resource pool of protocol was freed,
but freed linked list structures remains in the list.
