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Unsolicited router advertisements
by Alex Bligh 07 Sep '11

07 Sep '11

If I am running bird6 sending IPv6 router advertisements, is there a way I can persuade bird (without shutting it down and restarting it) to send unsolicited router advertisements, as per RFC2461 s6.2.4? Can I do this through a birdc complete restart of the ra protocol or similar? Or will that maintain timers? -- Alex Bligh

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RTRlib: RPKI-RTR C Client released
by Matthias Waehlisch 06 Sep '11

06 Sep '11

Hi folks, maybe the following is of interest for you: We are happy to announce the first public, open-source reference implementation of the RPKI/RTR client. The library is implemented in C and based on draft-ietf-sidr-rpki-rtr-16, draft-ietf-sidr-pfx-validate-02. The current release implements RTR-Sockets, which support SSH and unprotected TCP as transport layer. Automatic failover for multiple RTR servers is not yet implemented, but planned for the next release. The RTRlib 0.1 beta version and its documentation is available at: * http://rpki.realmv6.org/ Any feedback is highly appreciated! Cheers matthias -- Matthias Waehlisch . Freie Universitaet Berlin, Inst. fuer Informatik, AG CST . Takustr. 9, D-14195 Berlin, Germany .. mailto:waehlisch@ieee.org .. http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/~waehl :. Also: http://inet.cpt.haw-hamburg.de .. http://www.link-lab.net

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Problems getting to bird.network.cz
by Neil Wilson 05 Sep '11

05 Sep '11

Hi, There seems to be a problem for a few days getting to bird.network.cz from AS 13285 The traceroute ends at 82.119.253.237

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FreeBSD and CARP
by fredrik danerklint 04 Sep '11

04 Sep '11

Hi! I can't remember if I read it here on the list but does carp and bird work under freebsd? As of now, even if a carp interface is in backup mode, bird announce that prefix over ospf, which I don't want... -- //fredan

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several bgp/attrs.c questions
by Alexander V. Chernikov 02 Sep '11

02 Sep '11

Hello list! I've got several questions after some attribute code digging: 1) We're calling custom formatting function bgp_get_attr() with wrong lentgh (attribute name is not taken into account). This probably never will cause buffer overflow, but still: if we're passing buffer length it should be real length. Possible simple fix is in bgp_get_attr.diff 2) We know that either no extended attributes (route withdraw) or a pack (ORIGIN, AS_PATH, NEXTHOP) of mandatory attributes (and possibly some other) are passed within BGP UPDATE message. However we're allocating ea_list with single extended attribute on every BGP attribute we parse in bgp_decode_attr(). Maybe we can pre-allocate more than one attribute in ea_list ? Example implementation can be found in attached bgp_attr_ea.diff -- Alexander V. Chernikov Yandex NOC

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question about bgp_med
by fredrik danerklint 23 Aug '11

23 Aug '11

Hi! Is this possible in either a import or export filter: bgp_med = bgp_med + 3; -- //fredan

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BGP, FreeBSD and password
by fredrik danerklint 22 Aug '11

22 Aug '11

Hi! The manual page says: password string Use this password for MD5 authentication of BGP sessions. Default: no authentication. Password has to be set by external utility (e.g. setkey(8)) on BSD systems. Can someone provide me with an example of how that does work? -- //fredan

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Build failure from git archive
by Neil Wilson 18 Aug '11

18 Aug '11

Hi, I've got a launchpad auto-build locked onto the git archive, and I've been getting a persistent build failure from it. gcc -I../../ -I../../.. -g -O2 -o topology.o -c ../../../proto/ospf/topology.c ../../../proto/ospf/topology.c: In function 'originate_ext_lsa_body': ../../../proto/ospf/topology.c:935:7: error: 'n' undeclared (first use in this function) ../../../proto/ospf/topology.c:935:7: note: each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in make[3]: *** [topology.o] Error 1 Looks like an error introduced by change 7ff5803b Rgs Neil

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bird 1.3.2 - kernel / learn / filters
by Alex Bligh 17 Aug '11

17 Aug '11

Is it possible either to control what routes the kernel protocol learns from the kernel using "learn" by what /kernel/ protocol they are (meaning the "protocol xxxx" field to the "ip route add" command on linux), or alternatively to filter which of those are exported? -- Alex Bligh

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Reload fails - bird 1.3.2
by Alex Bligh 17 Aug '11

17 Aug '11

I think this is harmless, but reload all does this: bird> reload all kernel1: reload failed device1: reload failed MyBGP: reloading If I understand rightly what reload is meant to do for kernel/device (nothing), shouldn't this either report 'reloading' or say 'skipped' or something? I spent a little while debugging this thinking I've done something wrong. Config below (same as before) just in case I have. -- Alex Bligh protocol kernel { persist; # Don't remove routes on bird shutdown scan time 10; # Scan kernel routing table every 20 seconds import all; export all; learn; # Learn all alien routes from the kernel } # This pseudo-protocol watches all interface up/down events. protocol device { scan time 10; # Scan interfaces every 10 seconds } protocol bgp MyBGP { local as 65000; neighbor 10.255.199.1 as 65000; export filter { accept; }; import filter { accept; }; next hop self; import all; export all; }

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