Richard Cunningham

Thanks @riw777 . Do you already ready have an idea how those test changes would look like? Happy to add them to get this PR in but I don’t have...

@riw777 - After a rebase to pick up the latest test refactors looks like all tests are now passing. Is this now good to go?

If you use a BGPClient other than FRR (ExaBGP, BIRD) and advertise a locally originated IPv6 prefix, it will NOT add the link-local, even though the global NH is on...

I was doing some experiments and captures and wanted to provide the following to help debug further ... The following diffs will change the behaviour and prevent the link-local address...

@ton31337 - I did some experimentation with those flags but in our scenario they had no effect. I was able to isolate the code where I believe our issue is...

> > I did some experimentation with those flags but in our scenario they had no effect. > > You say it's not working, but [bcf094e](https://github.com/FRRouting/frr/commit/bcf094e0f0361de7e5a5948ccef29e54134db004) says it's (`PEER_FLAG_NEXTHOP_LOCAL_UNCHANGED`) working,...

Is `NEXTHOP_LOCAL_UNCHANGED` not implicit when the peers are on the same network segment?

> If you are asking if this flag is set automatically when the same network segment - then no. No that is not what I am asking. I'm asking if,...

I'd like to add to the above the case where we create a manifest from dir with multiple files and dirs. What would be the recommended solution there?

I encountered a different issue related to this. Maybe it is expected (and desirable) but for us it was not desirable so thought it was worth calling out. We generate...