Hello!

It looks like you are missing "protocol device {}" which you need for BIRD to actually know about the interfaces and assigned addresses.

Maria


On 24 April 2023 21:01:31 EEST, Alessandro Vesely <vesely@tana.it> wrote:
Hi all,

I installed bird2 (Debian stock) and configured radv, following the documented example.

When bird it started, it said:
Apr 24 12:36:55 31 north bird: static1: Channel ipv6 connected to table radv_routes
Apr 24 12:36:55 31 north bird: static1: Initializing
Apr 24 12:36:55 31 north bird: radv1: Channel ipv6 connected to table radv_routes
Apr 24 12:36:55 31 north bird: radv1: Initializing
Apr 24 12:36:55 31 north bird: static1: Starting
Apr 24 12:36:55 31 north bird: static1: State changed to up
Apr 24 12:36:55 31 north bird: radv1: Starting
Apr 24 12:36:55 31 north bird: radv1: State changed to up
Apr 24 12:36:55 30 north bird: Started
Apr 24 12:36:55 31 north bird: radv1 < interface eth2r created
Apr 24 12:36:55 31 north bird: radv1 < interface ppp0 created


No more logging. After some hours I get this:
541-north:bird# birdc show route for 2a02:29e1:300:e922::2
BIRD 2.0.7 ready.
Network not found

What does it mean? I configured static routes in the kernel. Perhaps I should only configure them in bird.
542-north:bird# ip route get 2a02:29e1:300:e922::2
2a02:29e1:300:e922::2 from :: dev eth2r proto kernel src 2a02:29e1:300:e922::1 metric 256 pref medium

My ISP assigned to me 2a02:29e1:300:e900/56. I have a few addresses assigned locally, and 2a02:29e1:300:e922::1 to the lan interface (eth2r), reserving that /64 for lan hosts. A neighboring PC has 2a02:29e1:300:e922::2/64.

External routing doesn't work, but this is another question (also asked on stackexchange: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/742826/ipv6-over-pppoe)

There must be something wrong in the config, which I don't know how to fix. I paste it below. What did I get wrong?

TIA
Ale
# This is a basic configuration file, which contains boilerplate options and
# some basic examples. It allows the BIRD daemon to start but will not cause
# anything else to happen.
#
# Please refer to the BIRD User's Guide documentation, which is also available
# online at http://bird.network.cz/ in HTML format, for more information on
# configuring BIRD and adding routing protocols.

# Configure logging
log syslog all;

# Set router ID. It is a unique identification of your router, usually one of
# IPv4 addresses of the router. It is recommended to configure it explicitly.
router id 185.8.198.188;

# Turn on global debugging of all protocols (all messages or just selected classes)
debug protocols all;
debug protocols { interfaces, states };

ipv6 table radv_routes; # Manually configured routes go here

protocol static {
ipv6 { table radv_routes; };

route 2a02:29e1:300:e922::/64 via "eth2r";
route 2a02:29e1:300:e900::/56 unreachable;
route ::0/0 via "ppp0";
}

protocol radv {
propagate routes yes; # Propagate the routes from the radv_routes table
ipv6 { table radv_routes; export all; };

interface "ppp0" {
prefix ::/0 {
autonomous off; # So do not autoconfigure any IP
};
};

interface "eth2r"; # No need for any other options
}