Hi folks, after reading the whole documentation nearly twice, I configured some stuff with BGP and so far it looks quite nice. I really like the verbosity of bird, it totally tells me what's going on, this is really nice. One thing I don't like that much is that it seems that I don't have a chance to reconfigure ONE BGP neighbour without dropping the BGP sessions to all other neighbors. I'm altering the config-file for a specific BGP neighbor and after that I am issueing
configure soft from the birdc-shell. This drops the BGP connections to ALL neighbors. This is not ideal as I would like to use bird also a route-server on our internet-exchange. Of course this problem can be overcome by using two route-server instances, but this is not really satisfying (and IXP customers might not really like the fact that every new customer causes BGP drops). I understand that if I just tweak the filters no sessions are dropped. Do the developers think there is a fair chance to fix that?
Furthermore, is there something like BGP soft reconfiguration (inbound/ outbound) for a specific peer? Wolfgang -- www.vix.at | www.aco.net wh@univie.ac.at | WH844-RIPE Vienna University Computer Center