BGP Error: No listening socket

[Ondrej Zajicek]

On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 11:14:56AM +0400, ????????? ?????? wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I have been forced to change customisations of network interfaces on a
> server with bird. After modification bird.conf I has checked up availability
> of BGP neighbors. Everything is all right. ping ok. telnet <ip of bgp
> neighbor> 179 - ok. After restart bird see error in/var/log/messges 
> 
> May 12 10:03:01 border-t2 bird: Reconfiguring
> May 12 10:03:01 border-t2 bird: Enabling protocol bgpfiord
> May 12 10:03:01 border-t2 bird: Enabling protocol bgpabonent
> May 12 10:03:01 border-t2 bird: Reconfigured
> May 12 10:03:01 border-t2 bird: sk_open: bind: Cannot assign requested
> address
> May 12 10:03:01 border-t2 bird: BGP: Unable to open listening socket
> May 12 10:03:01 border-t2 bird: sk_open: bind: Cannot assign requested
> address
> May 12 10:03:01 border-t2 bird: BGP: Unable to open listening socket
> 
> OSPF the protocol works perfectly. BGP no.
...
> I can not understand in any way that happens? What to check up?

Do you use 'listen bgp address' config option? Is bird started with
root privileges? Isn't there anything other listening on port 179
(can be checked by netstat -anp) ?

BTW, your emails have bad date (Apr 10, 2010).

-- 
Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo

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