<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Thank you Charles, I am a little red in the face for having not tried / know that.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I’ll give it a go, thanks again for the help and prompt response!</div><div class="">Mike</div><br class=""><div class="">
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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Mar 21, 2018, at 8:54 AM, Charles van Niman <<a href="mailto:charles@phukish.com" class="">charles@phukish.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div class="">Hey Mike,<br class=""><br class=""></div> Not sure what platform you're running BIRD on, but in Ubuntu/Linux, I use loopback interfaces to do this. Here is what my interfaces file / BIRD config look like. I am using /32s, but I don't think there are any issues with /24s going into BGP. Let me know if you have any questions or I missed your questions in some way.<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""></div>/etc/network/interfaces:<br class=""><div class=""># The loopback network interface<br class="">auto lo<br class="">iface lo inet loopback<br class=""><br class="">auto lo:10<br class="">iface lo:10 inet static<br class=""> address 172.22.150.126<br class=""> netmask 255.255.255.255<br class=""><br class="">auto lo:11<br class="">iface lo:11 inet static<br class=""> address 172.27.255.29<br class=""> netmask 255.255.255.255<br class=""><br class="">auto lo:20<br class="">iface lo:20 inet static<br class=""> address 172.22.150.119<br class=""> netmask 255.255.255.255<br class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">bird.conf:<br class=""><br class="">protocol direct {<br class=""> interface "lo*";<br class="">}<br class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">/Charles van Niman<br class=""></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 7:13 AM, Michael McConnell <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:michael@winkstreaming.com" target="_blank" class="">michael@winkstreaming.com</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space" class=""><div class="">Hello fellow Bird users,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I’ve run into a strange issue trying to subnet a /24 into a series of smaller /27 and /28’s and have the routed via BGP.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I currently do the following; route <a href="http://10.10.10.0/24" target="_blank" class="">10.10.10.0/24</a> reject;</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">However if I don’t bring the interface up as a /24 (i.e. ifconfig eth0:10 10.10.10.10 netmask 255.255.255.0 up) I am unable to get the route explored when I run show route - the interface needs to be online in order for “show route” to show the import as a unreachable.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I can kinda make this work through a series of strange static routes, but this seems incorrect. Can anyone suggest a better way to ensure my /24 is announced regardless so that I can then subnet it down for the purpose of serving over a VPN the /28’s and /27’s?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Hopefully that question makes sense and isn’t too much nonsense.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks for you help and comments!</div><div class="">Mike</div><br class=""><div class="">
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