[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.