I did look at https://dpaste.com/6P6NAUPNX, and saw that it had a template but no actual peers. I misinterpreted "& peer config: https://dpaste.com/HJ3SNL8RH" as being the config for the BIRD at the other end of the peering, and so didn't check that, as you say.

Anyway, your response is rather unkind, to someone who was trying to help you.

On Thu, Sep 3, 2020 at 3:43 PM Skyler Mäntysaari <sm@samip.fi> wrote:

If you had taken the time to read the posted links, you would see that it has peers, using Link-Local addresses.

On Thu, Sep 3, 2020, at 11:17, Neil Jerram wrote:
Does your configuration have any BGP peers? I've noticed that BIRD doesn't start listening until there is at least one BGP peer.

On Thu, Sep 3, 2020 at 12:12 AM Skyler Mäntysaari <sm@samip.fi> wrote:
Hi there,

I’m fairly certain that my issue is something rather small, or stupid but I’m unable to get Bird to listen on the 179 port.

The other side has direct in the protocol definition which is correct, and I tried this side with that as well but it only says “as213021_hel_node: Waiting for fe80:10::1%wg1 to become my neighbor” so I don’t really have more clues.

I did try to do strace and look for bind events, but couldn’t find any except for the control socket.

My config can be seen here: https://dpaste.com/6P6NAUPNX & peer config: https://dpaste.com/HJ3SNL8RH