BIRD at Interop (is this list still alive?)
Hi, the iLabs open source software area is planning to demonstrate BIRD as one of our open source routing stacks at Interop, where our demo includes an infrastructure entirely based on open source, and routing is one part of it. First, I'm not sure if the BIRD project is even alive, since the last piece of news I see on the web page is from 2/21/2005. But, hopefully somebody is still working on this project and reading this alias. My BGP peering between BIRD and it's peer (currently testing with a Cisco catalyst3550) keeps going down. Not only does the peering go down, but it seems that bird stops receiving anything on it's interface. However if I leave an ssh session with the box running bird open, the interface (and peering) comes up again as soon as I touch ssh session. Leaving a ping running in the window with my ssh session also will keep the interface from going down. This could of course mean I have bad hardware, but I seem to recall running into a similar problem with bird before and wanted to check if this is a known problem. Regards, Hege
Hi!
the iLabs open source software area is planning to demonstrate BIRD as one of our open source routing stacks at Interop, where our demo includes an infrastructure entirely based on open source, and routing is one part of it.
First, I'm not sure if the BIRD project is even alive, since the last piece of news I see on the web page is from 2/21/2005. But, hopefully somebody is still working on this project and reading this alias.
Yes, _someone_ is still reading this :-). Feela is probably even working on OSPF parts. [And I'll have to figure out how to get off-list since it receives a lot of spam, but that's another topic.]
My BGP peering between BIRD and it's peer (currently testing with a Cisco catalyst3550) keeps going down. Not only does the peering go down, but it seems that bird stops receiving anything on it's interface. However if I leave an ssh session with the box running bird open, the interface (and peering) comes up again as soon as I touch ssh session. Leaving a ping running in the window with my ssh session also will keep the interface from going down.
Martin should be able to help with that. Pavel -- Thanks for all the (sleeping) penguins.
Hi!
First, I'm not sure if the BIRD project is even alive, since the last piece of news I see on the web page is from 2/21/2005. But, hopefully somebody is still working on this project and reading this alias.
Unfortunately, nobody currently has time to develop new features, but we still at least fix bugs.
My BGP peering between BIRD and it's peer (currently testing with a Cisco catalyst3550) keeps going down. Not only does the peering go down, but it seems that bird stops receiving anything on it's interface. However if I leave an ssh session with the box running bird open, the interface (and peering) comes up again as soon as I touch ssh session. Leaving a ping running in the window with my ssh session also will keep the interface from going down.
I very much doubt this could be a bug in BIRD, because it doesn't know anything about other traffic on the interface. What NIC it is? Have a nice fortnight -- Martin `MJ' Mares <mj@ucw.cz> http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/ Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth God is real, unless declared integer.
On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 10:22:37AM +0200, Martin Mares wrote:
Hi!
First, I'm not sure if the BIRD project is even alive, since the last piece of news I see on the web page is from 2/21/2005. But, hopefully somebody is still working on this project and reading this alias.
Unfortunately, nobody currently has time to develop new features, but we still at least fix bugs.
Too bad, I like BIRD, well at least when I don't loose my interfaces.
My BGP peering between BIRD and it's peer (currently testing with a Cisco catalyst3550) keeps going down. Not only does the peering go down, but it seems that bird stops receiving anything on it's interface. However if I leave an ssh session with the box running bird open, the interface (and peering) comes up again as soon as I touch ssh session. Leaving a ping running in the window with my ssh session also will keep the interface from going down.
I very much doubt this could be a bug in BIRD, because it doesn't know anything about other traffic on the interface. What NIC it is?
HP DL320, NC324i Dual Port PCI-X Gigabit LOM server adapter. The equipment is currently powered down and waiting for the trucks to take it to Interop in Vegas, so I can't really do much more testing right now, that's why I wanted to just check if this is a known issue. I should have the box up and running again on Friday 4/27 and will do some more debugging then. Any chance I can bug you a bit again then? I'll run the box for a while without bird to verify that the interfaces stay up, then turn on bird again and also try ospf to see if this only happens with bgp. Any other suggestions? Couldn't find anything useful in the debugs. Hege
Have a nice fortnight -- Martin `MJ' Mares <mj@ucw.cz> http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/ Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth God is real, unless declared integer.
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Hege Trosvik -
Martin Mares -
Pavel Machek