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diff --git a/doc/bird.sgml b/doc/bird.sgml index 0eb476d..0131546 100644 --- a/doc/bird.sgml +++ b/doc/bird.sgml @@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ protocols to be incorporated easily. Among other features, BIRD supports: <item>multiple routing tables <item>the Border Gateway Protocol (BGPv4) <item>the Routing Information Protocol (RIPv2) - <item>the Open Shortest Path First protocol (OSPFv2) + <item>the Open Shortest Path First protocol (OSPFv2, OSPFv3) <item>a virtual protocol for exchange of routes between different routing tables on a single host <item>a command-line interface allowing on-line control and inspection of status of the daemon @@ -347,7 +347,7 @@ to zero to disable it. An empty <cf><m/switch/</cf> is equivalent to <cf/on/ Specifies a set of interfaces on which the protocol is activated with given interface-specific options. A set of interfaces specified by one interface option is described using an interface pattern. The - interface pattern consists of a sequence of clauses (separted by + interface pattern consists of a sequence of clauses (separated by commas), each clause may contain a mask, a prefix, or both of them. An interface matches the clause if its name matches the mask (if specified) and its address matches the prefix (if specified). Mask is @@ -508,7 +508,7 @@ This argument can be omitted if there exists only a single instance. Reload configuration from a given file. BIRD will smoothly switch itself to the new configuration, protocols are reconfigured if possible, restarted otherwise. Changes in - filters usualy lead to restart of affected protocols. If + filters usually lead to restart of affected protocols. If <cf/soft/ option is used, changes in filters does not cause BIRD to restart affected protocols, therefore already accepted routes (according to old filters) would be still propagated, @@ -991,7 +991,7 @@ for each neighbor using the following configuration parameters: received from its neighbor against the new filter. As these routes might not be available, there is a BGP protocol extension Route Refresh (specified in RFC 2918) that allows - BGP speaker to request re-advertisment of all routes from its + BGP speaker to request re-advertisement of all routes from its neighbor. This option specifies whether BIRD advertises this capability and accepts such requests. Even when disabled, BIRD can send route refresh requests. Default: on. @@ -1301,14 +1301,15 @@ protocol kernel { # Secondary routing table <sect1>Introduction <p>Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) is a quite complex interior gateway -protocol. The current IPv4 version (OSPFv2) is defined -in RFC 2328<htmlurl url="ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc2328.txt">. It's a link -state (a.k.a. shortest path first) protocol -- each router maintains a database -describing the autonomous system's topology. Each participating router -has an identical copy of the database and all routers run the same algorithm -calculating a shortest path tree with themselves as a root. -OSPF chooses the least cost path as the best path. -(OSPFv3 - OSPF for IPv6 is not supported yet.) +protocol. The current IPv4 version (OSPFv2) is defined in RFC +2328<htmlurl url="ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc2328.txt"> and +the current IPv6 version (OSPFv3) is defined in RFC 5340<htmlurl +url="ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc5340.txt"> It's a link state +(a.k.a. shortest path first) protocol -- each router maintains a +database describing the autonomous system's topology. Each participating +router has an identical copy of the database and all routers run the +same algorithm calculating a shortest path tree with themselves as a +root. OSPF chooses the least cost path as the best path. <p>In OSPF, the autonomous system can be split to several areas in order to reduce the amount of resources consumed for exchanging the routing @@ -1421,7 +1422,7 @@ protocol ospf <name> { at periodical intervals of <m/num/ seconds. The default value is 1. <tag>networks { <m/set/ }</tag> - Definition of area IP ranges. This is used in summary lsa origination. + Definition of area IP ranges. This is used in summary LSA origination. Hidden networks are not propagated into other areas. <tag>stubnet <m/prefix/ { <m/options/ }</tag> @@ -1525,7 +1526,7 @@ protocol ospf <name> { <tag>authentication cryptographic</tag> 16-byte long MD5 digest is appended to every packet. For the digest generation 16-byte long passwords are used. Those passwords are - not sent via network, so this mechanismus is quite secure. + not sent via network, so this mechanism is quite secure. Packets can still be read by an attacker. <tag>password "<M>text</M>"</tag> @@ -1754,9 +1755,7 @@ not currently supported. RIPv4 MD5 authentication (RFC 2082<htmlurl url="ftp://f <p>RIP is a very simple protocol, and it has a lot of shortcomings. Slow convergence, big network load and inability to handle larger networks -makes it pretty much obsolete in IPv4 world. (It is still usable on -very small networks.) It is widely used in IPv6 networks, -because there are no good implementations of OSPFv3. +makes it pretty much obsolete. (It is still usable on very small networks.) <sect1>Configuration @@ -1896,7 +1895,6 @@ there are still some features which would surely deserve to be implemented in future versions of BIRD: <itemize> -<item>OSPF for IPv6 networks <item>OSPF NSSA areas and opaque LSA's <item>Route aggregation and flap dampening <item>Generation of IPv6 router advertisements |