bgp router with multi asn's - neighbor config ?

Leo Vandewoestijne bird at unicycle.net
Thu Sep 4 19:31:44 CEST 2014


On Thu, 04 Sep 2014, Ondrej Zajicek wrote:

> > listen bgp address 10.0.1.102 port 179;
> > listen bgp address 10.0.2.102 port 179;
> 
> I don't think you should have two 'listen bgp' options. AFAIK there is
> only one listening BGP socket in BIRD, but it is OK to have it listen on
> 0.0.0.0 (default value). Incoming sessions are dispatched based on their
> source addresses.
> 
Oh yes, that's true.
In fact in FreeBSD defining two addresses now breaks it;
I'm not sure if that's because I started to use version 10,
or if something changed in Bird.
And so I stopped doing that around January 2014.
Before that, in 9 with a current version of Bird, it worked fine.

-- 

Leo



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