Unable to get Bird 2 to listen on the BGP socket

Skyler Mäntysaari sm at samip.fi
Thu Sep 3 16:48:02 CEST 2020


The allowedIps shouldn't be the issue.  I can ping fine and even nmap. 

Having the "direct" statement in the protocol defition does not change the behavior in any way.

P. S Please reply by writing up here and not below. 

On Thu, Sep 3, 2020, at 14:49, Bernd Naumann wrote:
> On 03.09.20 00:57, Skyler Mäntysaari 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 <https://dpaste.com/6P6NAUPNX> & peer config: https://dpaste.com/HJ3SNL8RH <https://dpaste.com/HJ3SNL8RH>
> > 
> > 
> 
> Hi Skyler,
> 
> Do you have assigned "fe80:10::2" to `wg1`? (Just to make sure...) I 
> think otherwise bird would not be able to bind to the address.
> And you have configured `AllowedIPs = 0.0.0.0/0, ::/0`?
> 
> Obvious question #2: You can ping6 the peer on fe80:10::1%wg1 ?
> 
> I would also enable "direct" for the peer, as you are directly connected 
>   via the tunnel.
> 
> Good luck and have fun with dn42!
> 
> Bernd
> 
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