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Dear Tyrasuki, <br>
<br>
please try to convert all to unix kind end of line as this should
help. Please let us know about the outcome. <br>
We are dealing with more pressing issues at the moment.<br>
<br>
Thank you for understanding and good luck!<br>
Happy routing,<br>
Jana<br>
<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">Jana Babovakova (she/her) | BIRD Tech Support | CZ.NIC, z.s.p.o.</pre>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 20. 05. 25 18:47, Tyrasuki via
Bird-users wrote:<br>
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<blockquote type="cite"
cite="mid:99985027-e494-4421-8989-cfd335ec369b@tyrasuki.be">Hi
there,
<br>
<br>
I am experiencing bird throwing a <FATAL> Unknown character
error on my configuration files.
<br>
I suspect this might be related to CRLF vs LF, as all the
positions it reports unknown character seems to be EOL or blank
spaces. I should mention I am currently writing my configuration
on a Windows machine, but it has passed between Linux and Windows
a couple times.
<br>
<br>
As an example, trying to start BIRD 3.1.0 on an Alpine Linux edge
box gives the following:
<br>
<br>
ns2:~# bird
<br>
bird: 2025-05-20 18:39:55.659 [0001] <FATAL>
/etc/bird.d/defines/constants.def:2:31 Unknown character
<br>
ns2:~# head /etc/bird.d/defines/constants.def
<br>
# Local preference values
<br>
define LP_UPSTREAM = 100;
<br>
define LP_PEER = 200;
<br>
define LP_DOWNSTREAM = 300;
<br>
define LP_OTHER = 150;
<br>
# ASNs
<br>
define AS_SELF = 209718;
<br>
define AS_BOGON = [
<br>
0,
<br>
ns2:~#
<br>
<br>
if I merge the second line with the first line to look like this:
<br>
define LP_UPSTREAM = 100;define LP_PEER = 200;
<br>
<br>
I get
<br>
<br>
ns2:~# bird
<br>
bird: 2025-05-20 18:41:02.547 [0001] <FATAL>
/etc/bird.d/defines/constants.def:2:61 Unknown character
<br>
<br>
Similarly, on another box running Debian 12 with the
pkg.labs.nic.cz repository, on BIRD 3.1.1:
<br>
bird3:~# bird
<br>
bird: 2025-05-20 18:42:01.451 [0001] <FATAL>
/etc/bird/bird.conf:1:26 Unknown character
<br>
bird3:~# head /etc/bird/bird.conf
<br>
router id 172.30.187.148;
<br>
<br>
log "/var/log/bird.log" { error };
<br>
<br>
ipv6 table master6;
<br>
ipv4 table master4;
<br>
<br>
include "filters/netlist/*.list";
<br>
include "filters/AS.list";
<br>
include "define/*.def";
<br>
bird3~#
<br>
<br>
Any suggestions would be welcome, as I am currently in the process
of refractoring my routers from BIRD1 to BIRD3, and this has put
me at a bit of a standstill. :)
<br>
<br>
Kind regards, and thank you in advance for any response,
<br>
Jori Vanneste / Tyrasuki
<br>
<br>
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