They were running a cisco router. They would do this:
show ip bgp neighbors X.X.X.X received-routes
And get:
Total number of prefixes 0
Apparently. I never saw it, but that is what they would tell me.
Sent: Monday, April 1, 2013 1:40pm
To: dspazman@epicup.com
Cc: "bird-users@bird.network.cz" <bird-users@trubka.network.cz>
Subject: Re: Got to ask, any ideas?
On Mon, Apr 01, 2013 at 11:55:02AM -0700, dspazman@epicup.com wrote:
> Yeah, it showed all 4 routes as exported.
>
> The only thing else I could think of was there was a level 2 smart switch between the two routers (mine and theirs). I wouldn't think that would make any effect, as the machines could ping each other fine and establish a session fine.
How do you know they didn't receive those routes? Do you have output from
their
#show ip bgp neighbor <ip>
#show ip bgp neighbor <ip> routes
mk