Hi! I have been forced to change customisations of network interfaces on a server with bird. After modification bird.conf I has checked up availability of BGP neighbors. Everything is all right. ping ok. telnet <ip of bgp neighbor> 179 - ok. After restart bird see error in/var/log/messges May 12 10:03:01 border-t2 bird: Reconfiguring May 12 10:03:01 border-t2 bird: Enabling protocol bgpfiord May 12 10:03:01 border-t2 bird: Enabling protocol bgpabonent May 12 10:03:01 border-t2 bird: Reconfigured May 12 10:03:01 border-t2 bird: sk_open: bind: Cannot assign requested address May 12 10:03:01 border-t2 bird: BGP: Unable to open listening socket May 12 10:03:01 border-t2 bird: sk_open: bind: Cannot assign requested address May 12 10:03:01 border-t2 bird: BGP: Unable to open listening socket OSPF the protocol works perfectly. BGP no. [root@border-t2 etc]# ping 93.191.9.205 PING 93.191.9.205 (93.191.9.205) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 93.191.9.205: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.799 ms 64 bytes from 93.191.9.205: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.824 ms 64 bytes from 93.191.9.205: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=0.836 ms --- 93.191.9.205 ping statistics --- 3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 2002ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.799/0.819/0.836/0.036 ms [root@border-t2 etc]# bird> show protocols myospf name proto table state since info myospf OSPF master up 09:37 Running bird> bird> show protocols bgpabonent name proto table state since info bgpabonent BGP testable down 10:02 Error: No listening socket bird> bird> show protocols bgpfiord name proto table state since info bgpfiord BGP master down 10:02 Error: No listening socket bird> [root@border-t2 ~]# birdc BIRD 1.2.3 ready. bird> show interfaces lo up (index=1) MultiAccess AdminUp LinkUp Loopback Ignored MTU=16436 127.0.0.1/8 (Primary, broadcast 127.255.255.255, scope host) eth0 DOWN (index=2) MultiAccess Broadcast Multicast AdminUp LinkUp MTU=1500 eth1 DOWN (index=3) MultiAccess Broadcast Multicast AdminUp LinkUp MTU=1500 eth2 up (index=4) MultiAccess Broadcast Multicast AdminUp LinkUp MTU=1500 10.16.1.73/24 (Primary, broadcast 10.16.1.255, scope site) eth0.20 up (index=5) MultiAccess Broadcast Multicast AdminUp LinkUp MTU=1500 192.168.20.1/24 (Primary, broadcast 192.168.20.255, scope site) eth0.701 up (index=6) MultiAccess Broadcast Multicast AdminUp LinkUp MTU=1500 93.191.9.206/30 (Primary, broadcast 93.191.9.207, opposite 93.191.9.205, scope univ) <-----FOR bgpfiord eth1.10 up (index=8) MultiAccess Broadcast Multicast AdminUp LinkUp MTU=1500 192.168.10.1/24 (Primary, broadcast 192.168.10.255, scope site) eth1.550 up (index=9) <------FOR OSPF and bgpabonent MultiAccess Broadcast Multicast AdminUp LinkUp MTU=1500 10.10.1.2/25 (Primary, broadcast 10.10.1.127, scope site) sit0 DOWN (index=10) MultiAccess AdminUp LinkDown MTU=1480 bird> bird> show interfaces summary interface state address lo up 127.0.0.1/8 eth0 DOWN eth1 DOWN eth2 up 10.16.1.73/24 eth0.20 up 192.168.20.1/24 eth0.701 up 93.191.9.206/30 <--for bgpfiord eth1.10 up 192.168.10.1/24 eth1.550 up 10.10.1.2/25 <--for bgpabonent and myospf sit0 DOWN bird> I can not understand in any way that happens? What to check up? Vladislav Grishin