Hello Radu,

/etc/bird.conf:7:5 syntax error, unexpected ONLINK

By reading the migration guide, i see that it was a deliberate choice to stop supporting this attribute: “The|onlink|route attribute has been temporarily disabled until we find out how to implement it properly.”

Is there a plan to bring back support for it in the nearby future?

yes, there are plans to fix it, unfortunately we didn’t have time yet to do it. The actual problem is semantics of the nexthop attribute wrt. the configured VRFs, but thinking about that again, I’m almost tempted to say that all the original reasons are gone. So we’ll check and let you know very soon.

Well, could you please try the current thread-next branch?

https://gitlab.nic.cz/labs/bird/-/tree/thread-next

Unfortunately, you’ll have to build it yourself for now.

We are also in the process of implementing Rocky Linux package autobuild, so I would expect that in a short time, you may get even a package to test. (Not now though.)

Have a nice day!
Maria

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Maria Matejka (she/her) | BIRD Team Leader | CZ.NIC, z.s.p.o.