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<font face="DejaVu Sans">Hi all,<br>
<br>
we experienced issues with non-functional BFD Sessions. Debugging
yielded that bird does not use RFC compliant BFD Port ranges.<br>
RFC 5881 states: "" The source port MUST be in the range 49152
through 65535. ""; however, the port range is not restricted
within bird and thus using arbitrary high ports.<br>
Some tier 1 transit providers like "Deutsche Telekom" apply strict
filter for BFD and only allow RFC5881 compliant ports, hence the
issue.<br>
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There is a workaround to limit the port range globally at system
level (/proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_local_port_range); this seems to
work, but we have the strong feeling that restriction of port
range for BFD sessions should happen within bird itself.<br>
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Kind regards,<br>
Christian</font>
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