new bird user

Alexander V. Chernikov melifaro at ipfw.ru
Fri Dec 2 17:11:07 CET 2011


On 02.12.2011 19:19, Sushant K.R. wrote:
>
>
> Hi !!
>
> i tried to install bird in Solaris (SunOS 5.10 Generic_118833-33 sun4u
> sparc SUNW,Netra-240) but could not get the luck, may be Sun Os doesn't
> support bird!!! So i installed FreeBSD in Netra-240 and then installed
> Bird (it was quite easy). Now I configured BGP.When did BGP peering with
> interface ip, BGP estalibshed but when i did same with loopback ips, BGP
> establishment failed.(note: both loopback ips can be ping from each
> other).My scenario:
>
> case1: BGP peering with loopback ips
>
> [Router1]------bgp------[Bird]
You can use OSPF for loopback announces.

>
> Configuration:
> *Router1:*
>
> Router1#sh ip int brief
> Interface IP-Address OK? Method Status Protocol
> FastEthernet0/0 192.168.157.132 YES NVRAM up up
> Loopback0 30.30.30.1 YES NVRAM up up
>
> Router1#sh run | sec bgp
> router bgp 300
> no synchronization
> bgp log-neighbor-changes
> neighbor 20.20.20.1 remote-as 200
> neighbor 20.20.20.1 ebgp-multihop 3
> neighbor 20.20.20.1 update-source Loopback0
> no auto-summary
>
> Router1#ping 20.20.20.1
>
> Type escape sequence to abort.
> Sending 5, 100-byte ICMP Echos to 20.20.20.1, timeout is 2 seconds:
> !!!!!
> Success rate is 100 percent (5/5), round-trip min/avg/max = 4/29/72 ms

Can you please show 'ping 20.20.20.1 so lo0' ?
>
>
>
> BIRD:
>
> bird> sh status
> BIRD 1.2.5

Can you please install bird from latest ports?
Current version is 1.3.4

> Router ID is 20.20.20.1
>
> bird> sh interfaces
> em0 up (index=1)
> MultiAccess Broadcast Multicast AdminUp LinkUp MTU=1500
> 192.168.157.130/24 (Primary, broadcast 192.168.157.255, scope site)
> plip0 DOWN (index=2)
> PtP Multicast AdminUp LinkDown MTU=1500
> lo0 up (index=3)
> MultiAccess AdminUp LinkUp Loopback Ignored MTU=16384
> 20.20.20.1/32 (Primary, broadcast 20.20.20.1, scope univ)
>
> bird> sh route for 30.30.30.1
> 30.30.30.1/32 via 192.168.157.132 on em0 [static1 01:57] * (200)
>
>
>
>
> protocol bgp R2_loopbk {
>
> description "My R2_loopbk BGP";
> local as 200;
> neighbor 30.30.30.1 as 300;
> source address 20.20.20.1;
> import all;
> export all;
> }


Can you please show full config ? (except ^# ?)

>
> With above configuration, i cannot get bgp establishment.So below are my
> questions:
>
> 1) Can we install bird in Solaris 10?
Solaris uses the same rtsock as *BSD do. Theoretically, bird should be 
able to work on Solaris.
> 2) Why with above configurations, BGP fails?Is there any thing i am missing?
Possibly static route on BSD is not installed in kernel ?

> 3) when i use multihop in bird configuration file, it gives
> configuration error!!
WWW documentation relates to latest bird release.

>
> Thank you for u're support!!!!!
>
>
>
>


-- 
WBR, Alexander



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