[CUWiN-Dev] whither quagga?

[David Young]

On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 11:33:36AM -0500, Bill Comisky wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Sep 2006, David Young wrote:
> 
> >On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 01:53:02PM -0500, Bill Comisky wrote:
> >>On Tue, 19 Sep 2006, David Young wrote:
> >>
> >>>On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 12:19:01PM -0500, Bill Comisky wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>I noticed quagga 0.99.5 was released recently, see release announcement:
> >>>>http://lists.quagga.net/pipermail/quagga-users/2006-August/007456.html
> >>>>
> >>>>It contains a fix for the zebra RIB add/delete work-queue race (bug 
> >>>>#268)
> >>>>that Dave mentioned a while back.  It's marked as a 0.99.4 bug, so it
> >>>>shouldn't have affected any builds from trunk, which is still using 
> >>>>0.99.2
> >>>>(which probably has it's own issues).  But it sounds like a good time to
> >>>>revisit updating quagga, now that we're post 0.7.0.  Unless there are
> >>>>objections I'll import 0.99.5 on the vendor branch and merge the changes
> >>>>to the quagga-zrib-update branch.  I'll build and test the
> >>>>quagga-zrib-update changes against 0.7.0, and then if there are no
> >>>>surprises maybe we can merge to trunk so it can get more testing.
> >>>>
> >>>>Any thoughts?
> >>>
> >>>All of that sounds good to me.
> >>>
> >>>Dave
> >>>
> >>
> >>So I've done the above and the node I have quagga 0.99.5 running on is up
> >>and talking to everyone fine, routing table looks good.  The only thing
> >>I'm seeing from zebra in the logs are a few of these (maybe 4x in
> >>~20hrs) in /var/log/daemon:
> >>
> >>Apr 25 10:17:02 cuw zebra[1871]: write : Too many references: can't splice
> >>(59)
> >>Apr 25 10:17:05 cuw zebra[1871]: write : Too many references: can't splice
> >>(59)
> >>
> >>Google tells me this is the ETOOMANYREFS unix error code, but that's all I
> >>got.
> >
> >I see that a lot.  I don't know what it means.  It doesn't seem to cause
> >any problems.
> 
> ok.
> 
> >>Dave, in extern-src/quagga/lib/ on the quagga-zrib-update branch there are
> >>some new route_types.* files.  The .h file is generated using gawk from
> >>the route_types.txt file.  There are some comments in route_types.txt
> >>about "switching on redist support" for HSLS.  I'm not sure what this
> >>means, but I tried compiling/running with it as-is and with the attached
> >>patch and didn't notice any difference.  Should the the patch be applied?
> >
> >Nah, we don't support redistribution.
> >
> 
> ok.  Things still look fine here, so I'll merge the quagga-zrib-update 
> branch changes to trunk

Thank you!

Dave

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