BIRD at Interop (is this list still alive?)

[Pavel Machek]

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.