bgp protocol info in passive mode

Ondrej Zajicek santiago at crfreenet.org
Fri Jul 2 10:44:18 CEST 2010


On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 02:02:16PM +0200, Arjan Filius wrote:
> Hello Bird-users,
>
>
> Currently making some monitor scripts, and working on that i noticed a  
> little difference with 2 (ipv4 and ipv6) export-only bgp protocols.

...

> Both the protocol definitions are exactly the same, apart from the  
> neighbor definition.
>
> The only difference is the ipv4 neigbor is in a direct connected subnet,  
> where the ipv6 isn't.
>
> After "fixing" the ipv6 passive neigbor to a direct connected ip i got 
> the "Passive" in the info field.
>
> I'm not sure what is the correct behaviour, but displaying passive when  
> actually passive eases my monitoring scripts.

I think that if you don't have multihop option and your neighbor address
is not from a direct connected subnet, that such configuration is unusable
and that is a reason why there is Idle state and not Passive state.

-- 
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Ondrej 'SanTiago' Zajicek (email: santiago at crfreenet.org)
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