Hi Robert, thanks for the answer. I already assumed such an issue :( I'm aware of the EOL in November, but I'm afraid I still need to roll it out up to that date. Thanks for your quick answer. I will go with Bird 1 in that case. Regards, Tim On 01.07.20 22:05, Robert Scheck wrote:
On Wed, 01 Jul 2020, Tim Meusel wrote:
I'm happily using Bird 2 on multiple CentOS 7 nodes. Sadly I now need to rollout BGP to some CentOS 6 boxes :sadface:. I noticed that ftp://bird.network.cz/pub/bird/centos/ only contains CentOS 7 packages, and EPEL 6 only has Bird 1.6.8. However I wanted to ask if Bird 2 would work on CentOS 6? Would Bird itself compile but dependencies are outdated/missing?
since BIRD 2.0.5, a C compiler newer than contained in CentOS 6 is needed; I had to drop BIRD 2 from EPEL 6 due to this. See also the old thread here:
- http://trubka.network.cz/pipermail/bird-users/2019-August/013634.html - http://trubka.network.cz/pipermail/bird-users/2019-August/013631.html
But given CentOS 6 reaches end of lifetime in November (!), please migrate these boxes to CentOS 8 or at least 7. There, BIRD 2 is even in EPEL :)
Regards, Robert