February 2011 - Bird-users

how to confirm which capabilities have been negotiated
by Eiichiro Watanabe 24 Oct '11

24 Oct '11

Hello, Do we have an appropriate command to show which BGP capabilities have been negotiated on bird after a peer has been established? Of course, I known I can recognize when I look into packets captured, or confirm it on the neighbor router by using "show ip bgp neighbor x.x.x.x" command (in the case of CiscoIOS). it wouldn't be smart. Thanks, eiichiro -- ################################################### Eiichiro Watanabe Internet Multifeed Co.

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BIRD at MSK-IX
by Mikhail A. Grishin 27 May '11

27 May '11

Hi, We successfully finished the process of adaptation BIRD to MSK-IX network. Currently BIRD is running on both IPv4 Route Servers (version 1.2.0 with some patches from Ondrej Zajicek). Also we modified our public Looking Glass service. It's available via: http://www.msk-ix.ru/eng/lookingglass.html Thank you for help and cooperation! -- Mikhail A. Grishin E-mail: magr(a)ripn.net

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BIRD Wiki
by Ondrej Zajicek 10 Mar '11

10 Mar '11

Hello I found that there is already one running (empty) wiki as a part of Redmine project management webapp used for BIRD. I added some examples and FAQs for a start: https://git.nic.cz/redmine/projects/bird/wiki You could try to register and edit it. -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Ondrej 'SanTiago' Zajicek (email: santiago(a)crfreenet.org) OpenPGP encrypted e-mails preferred (KeyID 0x11DEADC3, wwwkeys.pgp.net) "To err is human -- to blame it on a computer is even more so."

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internal bgp question
by Denis Samsonov 27 Feb '11

27 Feb '11

Have a situation .. It is necessary to link two Rout server (internal bgp) by cat6509 approximate scheme: rs1 (vlan1, as1111)-c6509 (as1111) - rs2 (vlan2, as1111) In this configuration, protocol bgp c6509 { local as 1111; neighbor 178.xxx.xx.x as 1111; error: Only external neighbor can be RS client how can I get out of this situation and to link both route servers internal bgp? without the use of gray AS

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Bird6 and static blackhole
by Giuseppe Ravasio 24 Feb '11

24 Feb '11

Hi, I'm setting up bird6 as core IPv6 BGP router and in order to annunce my subnet aggregated i used the blackhole method: protocol static { route 2a01:9c01::/32 drop; } but when i started bird i keep getting this error: bird6: device1: Scanning interfaces bird6: kernel1: Scanning routing table bird6: kernel1: Pruning table master bird6: kernel1: 2a01:9c01::/32: reinstalling bird6: Netlink: No such device bird6: kernel1: Pruning inherited routes it seems that linux doesn't allow to set blackhole ipv6 routes without specifing the device: root@:~# ip -f inet6 route add blackhole 2a01:9c01::/32 RTNETLINK answers: No such device if I append dev lo the route inserts without problems. This error does not happen with reject and so protocol static { route 2a01:9c01::/32 reject; } works like a charm. There is a way to solve this issue? Or maybe you can consider allowing to specify device in route drop command. Regards. G.Ravasio

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Some questions about BIRD
by Marco Basaldella 21 Feb '11

21 Feb '11

Hi everyone, I am a Master Degree student in Computer Science in Udine, Italy. I'm currently developing a project with the Engineering Department of my University, for which we have to modify a router software to meet some our particular needing; we are trying to demonstrate that is possible to speed up routers speed for particular protocols and in particular conditions by saving in the ipv4 or ipv6 datagram the position in the forwarding table of the destination of the datagrams. Without explaining in depth our problems and our goals, we thought to BIRD as the router to modify to get our goals achieved. I'm asking you if, in BIRD, is possible to: 1 - read some particular fields in packets, defined by us; 2 - write some particular fields in packets, always defined by us; 3 - get the position in the forwarding table of the destination we are sending the datagram, possibly as a integer; 4 - having this integer, get the destination of a datagram in O(1) time, excluding the obvious coherence checks. Naturally, I'm not asking you to do the work I'll have to do :) I simply want to know if, in BIRD, are these things possible. I've already read the BIRD documentation and part of the source code, so I think that the the 3rd and 4th point are easy to achieve; moreover, I was unable to understand the IO loops of BIRD and how does it analyses packets, so I hope that you can give me an answer. Thank you, -Marco Basaldella

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web site
by Ladislav Lhotka 18 Feb '11

18 Feb '11

Hi, quite often, though not always, I am getting Apache installation page from http://bird.network.cz instead of the fine BIRD stuff. Is anything wrong with the web server? Cheers, Lada -- Ladislav Lhotka, CESNET PGP Key ID: E74E8C0C

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filter issue
by Matthew Whittaker-Williams 17 Feb '11

17 Feb '11

Hi I am having some issues with a filter, any advice on whats wrong with this : # BGP Exception prefixes filter exceptions { asnums = [ 286 ]; if ( bgp_path.last ~ asnums) then accept; } I get the following error bird: /etc/bird.conf, line 68: You may set only variables. Thanks Matt

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1.2.6 release due?
by Neil Wilson 15 Feb '11

15 Feb '11

Hi, We've run into issues with bird 1.2.5 faulting with large OSPF LSA lists (> about 120 stub entries). I notice there are a few fixes in amongst the enhancements in the git repository that address this area. Are there any plans to issue a release in the near future, or am I as well cherry picking the fixes and rebuilding? Rgs Neil Wilson

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Check on routes announced by peer
by Simone Morandini 14 Feb '11

14 Feb '11

Hi all, a (hopefully) quick question: one of our peer says it is announcing a set of network to the route server, but there routes do not actually appear to be there... If I issue a "sh route protocol <PEER>" the list is empty, as well as if I issue "sh route where bgp_path.first=<peer-as>". Is there a way to check if those network actually arrive to the route server? Thanks, Simone. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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