Re: BIRD incorrectly(?) detects whether a peer is directly connected

That is true, but it is not limited to BGP peers, it also affects other issues like next hop validation. Unfortunately it is not easily fixable. It would require redesigning whole internal neighbor processing, which is something that we plan to do, but there are currently tasks with higher priority. I see. Is there a channel, such as an RSS feed, where I can stay up to date with BIRD updates?

Also, for BGP peers, it can be workarounded by setting BGP as multihop 1. Yep, we already did that.

Thanks, -- Arsen Arsenović