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

[Marco van Tol]

Op 8 mrt. 2019, om 14:45 heeft Ondrej Zajicek <santiago at crfreenet.org> het volgende geschreven:
> 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.

Ah right, okay thanks.

>> - 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?

Hi,

This fixed it.  I added this option only to the cisco neighbors which made them accept peering.

Much appreciated, and let me know when you need more information from me.

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Marco van Tol