Hi Bird users, I'm setting up a bird test router, using bird 1.3.9 on debian squeeze (backport of the packages in unstable). It seems I cannot get bird to listen on tcp port 179. tcpdump shows outgoing traffic from 10.140.59.20 to 10.140.59.16, but there's just nothing listening on port 179 when I start bird. $ netstat -an | grep 179 $ This really feels like I'm missing something small, something stupid. Here's my test config: router id 10.140.59.20; debug protocols all; protocol kernel { persist; scan time 60; import none; # filter!!1~1 export all; } protocol device { scan time 60; } protocol static { import all; route 10.0.0.0/8 blackhole; route 172.16.0.0/12 blackhole; route 192.168.0.0/16 blackhole; debug all; } protocol ospf ospf1918 { area 0.0.0.0 { interface "eth2" { authentication cryptographic; password "xxxx" { id 25; }; }; interface "eth1" { stub; }; interface "lo" { stub; }; }; } protocol bgp bgp1918_knud { import all; local as 64521; source address 10.140.59.20; keepalive time 20; hold time 60; neighbor 10.140.59.16 as 64521; } protocol bgp bgp1918_oele { import all; local as 64521; source address 10.140.59.20; keepalive time 20; hold time 60; neighbor 10.140.59.18 as 64521; } I tried to explicitely add "listen bgp address 0.0.0.0 port 179;" to the config, but still no listening 179. Logs do not show any errors or warnings why the listening socket is not opened... Jan 20 14:29:12 cabbage bird: bgp1918_knud: Initializing Jan 20 14:29:12 cabbage bird: bgp1918_oele: Initializing Jan 20 14:29:12 cabbage bird: bgp1918_knud: Starting Jan 20 14:29:12 cabbage bird: bgp1918_oele: Starting Jan 20 14:29:12 cabbage bird: bgp1918_oele: Waiting for 10.140.59.18 to become my neighbor Jan 20 14:29:12 cabbage bird: bgp1918_knud: Waiting for 10.140.59.16 to become my neighbor Here's some output of show protocols. bird> show protocols all bgp1918_oele name proto table state since info bgp1918_oele BGP master start 14:19 Idle Preference: 100 Input filter: ACCEPT Output filter: REJECT Routes: 0 imported, 0 exported, 0 preferred Route change stats: received rejected filtered ignored accepted Import updates: 0 0 0 0 0 Import withdraws: 0 0 --- 0 0 Export updates: 0 0 0 --- 0 Export withdraws: 0 --- --- --- 0 BGP state: Idle Neighbor address: 10.140.59.18 Neighbor AS: 64521 -- Hans van Kranenburg - System / Network Engineer T +31 (0)10 2760434 | hans.van.kranenburg@mendix.com | www.mendix.com