Is BGP actually working with bird 1.0.11? I have about the simplest possible BGP stanza, and I am not seeing any traffic with tcpdump. I have tried both the debian package and a self-built binary. router id 10.240.192.226; protocol direct { interface "eth0"; # Restrict network interfaces it works with } protocol kernel { scan time 90; # Scan kernel routing table every 20 seconds import none; # Default is import all export all; # Default is export none } protocol device { scan time 10; # Scan interfaces every 10 seconds } protocol static { debug all; route 172.16.0.0/12 via 10.240.200.3; export all; } protocol bgp { debug all; local as 64599; neighbor 10.240.192.3 as 64600; import all; export all; }