Howdy!

On Tue, Jul 07, 2026 at 03:38:31PM +0800, xinzhe liu wrote:

I would like to report that BIRD does not currently implement RFC 8538 (Notification Message Support for BGP Graceful Restart). This is not a protocol violation

This seems to be correct.

Affected Version

BIRD version 2.0.7

This is quite old, the current versions are 3.3.1 and 2.19.1.

Source-Level Analysis

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This looks like you already checked implementation feasibility. Feel free to send a patch.

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