[Xorp-hackers] Adding static routes with unresolved next-hop router

Atanu Ghosh atanu@ICSI.Berkeley.EDU
Fri, 13 Aug 2004 12:01:39 -0700


    Mark> The question is really one of whether static_routes behaves
    Mark> like a "normal" routing protocol (in which case it will need
    Mark> to monitor RIB or interface state in a similar way to BGP,
    Mark> because unlike RIP, OSPF or IS-IS, it doesn't have its own
    Mark> link state monitoring mechanism), or whether it's something
    Mark> different.

I think that the static route should be monitoring the interface
states. It needs to do this anyway to determine if it can add a route in
the first place.

    Atanu.