bird version 2.0.4 - peering with cisco version ios xe 16.3.5 - invalid open message

[Ondrej Zajicek]

On Fri, Mar 08, 2019 at 01:51:31PM +0100, Marco van Tol wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> So I replaced bird 2.0.4 for which I downloaded the rpm from your site with bird 2.0.2 which I installed using yum on a centos 7 system.
> 
> I noticed 2 things:
> - The Centos 7 2.0.2 rpm makes the bird daemon drop privileges and resumes as user bird
> - The 2.0.4 package from your site, when started with the supplied .service file, remains as root, with the exact same bird.conf

Hi

That is defined by cmdline options, so they are probably missing in the .service file.

> - Version 2.0.2 has no issues to peer with the cisco router, it peers fine.
> 
> So now I'm curious how worried I should be about the "import bgp fixes" in the 2.0.4 release notes. :-)

That is unlikely as that does not change OPEN message.

Could you try 2.0.4 with 'long lived graceful restart off;' option?

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