Hi, i am participating in a virtual network which is created for computer enthusiasts to gain knowledge about advanced routing protocols and stuff. It is called the DN42 (http://dn42.net). Currently i am establishing BGP sessions with the help of quagga, but since it is quite bloated for my small setup, i would like to migrate to bird. I have configured bird4 with the example config provided in the DN42 wiki (https://dn42.net/howto/Bird) (sorry about the HTML entities). The result is: Bird populates my routing table with all the correct routes, but spawns very huge amounts of BGP traffic. I ran it overnight accidentally, and it spawned over 70GB traffic on some interfaces, so these particular peers closed their VPN tunnels to me, which is understandable. I have created a minimal config by myself, which has the same result. However, peering with quagga works as expected, with all routes and little traffic. But since i want to go away from quagga, and use bird, i am asking you for advice in this problem. Where is my error, and how can i use bird in the correct way? Additional info: I am using bird on Debian Wheezy Stable, and the virtual connections to my peers are set up with OpenVPN. I use IPv4 only (currently). So i would be thankful for any help or suggestions how to fix the error. Thanks in advance, Simon --- Before printing this email, think if it is really needed.