Hi everyone, developers and users, having played (for the *first* time) the last three months with the 'quagga' suite, incidentally, just some days ago, I discovered the BIRD program and want to try it... the router compiled and run OK on my (production) 2.6.21 linux kernel platform. So, since then, I installed it and now I'm learning and practicing for the best working configuration, focused for now, only on the 'ospf' environment in which I'm concerned. Since I experienced (at least it is for me) that the newest quagga releases doesn't work on my alternate 2.4 linux platform (kernel 2.4.23), I tried the BIRD on that and discovered it run OK... the ospf routing processes seem regular without any problems, but: 1) at launch of bird appears on console the warning: 'bird: Monotonic timer is missing' furthermore, the *syslog* reports (from 'startup' to 'shutdown') the following lines: May 6 08:25:31 ir0rm-7 bird: Monotonic timer is missing May 6 08:25:44 ir0rm-7 bird: Netlink: File exists May 6 08:26:33 ir0rm-7 last message repeated 3 times May 6 08:27:33 ir0rm-7 last message repeated 3 times May 6 08:28:33 ir0rm-7 last message repeated 3 times May 6 08:29:33 ir0rm-7 last message repeated 3 times ... ... May 6 08:49:37 ir0rm-7 bird: Netlink: No such process May 6 08:49:37 ir0rm-7 bird: Shutdown completed instead, the linux 'syslog' for 2.6 kernel reports (from 'startup' to 'shutdown') only the following lines: May 6 08:25:44 ir0rm-7 bird: Netlink: File exists May 6 08:26:33 ir0rm-7 last message repeated 3 times May 6 08:27:33 ir0rm-7 last message repeated 3 times May 6 08:28:33 ir0rm-7 last message repeated 3 times May 6 08:29:33 ir0rm-7 last message repeated 3 times May 6 08:30:33 ir0rm-7 last message repeated 3 times ... ... May 6 08:49:37 ir0rm-7 bird: Shutdown completed Now, reading the past Aug/Sep 2010 bird mailing lists, a similar problem appears to be solved. So, my question about the above warnings: are they due to my systems or to my missed/wrong setups; or instead a suddenly re-appearing of such a warnings/(failure for 2.4?) messages? No logging lines are setup on both 'bird.conf' files. TNX for your big efforts on improving the BIRD... and for your kindly reply. gus i0ojj