Routes disappear after reloading BIRD configuration

Robert Brockbank robbrockbank at gmail.com
Sat May 23 00:17:32 CEST 2015


Thank you so much for the quick response.  I'm using this workaround and it
seems to work great.

Thanks,

Rob



On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 5:33 PM, Ondrej Zajicek <santiago at crfreenet.org>
wrote:

> On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 04:05:10PM -0700, Robert Brockbank wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've got two hosts each running BIRD within a docker container.  If I
> > restart BIRD on one of the hosts, I drop routes.
> >
> > I have the kernel option "persist" set, running bird with the -R option
> and
> > set kernel and bgp to have graceful restart.
> >
> > Restarting the service, sending in a SIGHUP or entering "configure" on
> > birdc all cause routes to be dropped temporarily.
> >
> > Any thoughts on what might be causing this?  Is this just a configuration
> > issue?  I've outlined my set up below, including config files etc.
>
> Hi
>
> Seems like a bug in handling unnamed protocols derived from a template.
> As a workaround, just add an explicit name to bgp protocols:
>
>   protocol bgp bgp_p1 from bgp_template {
>     neighbor 172.17.8.101 as 64511;
>   }
>
> > One other question, are there any plans to allow dynamic reconfiguration
> > (e.g. adding and removing a peer) without restarting the protocols?
>
> Adding and removing peers (i.e. BGP protocols) with reconfiguration
> should not restart other protocols.
>
>
> --
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>
> Ondrej 'Santiago' Zajicek (email: santiago at crfreenet.org)
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