Unable to get Bird 2 to listen on the BGP socket

Neil Jerram neil at tigera.io
Thu Sep 3 10:17:16 CEST 2020


Does your configuration have any BGP peers?  I've noticed that BIRD doesn't
start listening until there is at least one BGP peer.

On Thu, Sep 3, 2020 at 12:12 AM Skyler Mäntysaari <sm at samip.fi> wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> I’m fairly certain that my issue is something rather small, or stupid but
> I’m unable to get Bird to listen on the 179 port.
>
> The other side has direct in the protocol definition which is correct, and
> I tried this side with that as well but it only says “as213021_hel_node:
> Waiting for fe80:10::1%wg1 to become my neighbor” so I don’t really have
> more clues.
>
> I did try to do strace and look for bind events, but couldn’t find any
> except for the control socket.
>
> My config can be seen here: https://dpaste.com/6P6NAUPNX & peer config:
> https://dpaste.com/HJ3SNL8RH
>
>
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