BGP Error: No listening socket

[Владислав Гришин]

> Do you use 'listen bgp address' config option?

I tried two variants.

> Is bird started with root privileges?

[root at border-t2 ~]# whoami
root
[root at border-t2 ~]# ps -aef | grep bird
root      2877     1  0 12:01 ?        00:00:00 /usr/local/sbin/bird -c
/etc/bird.conf
root      2884  2671  0 12:01 pts/0    00:00:00 grep bird
[root at border-t2 ~]#


> Isn't there anything other listening on port 179 (can be checked by
netstat -anp) ?

BIRD 1.2.3 ready.
bird> down
Shutdown requested
Connection closed by server.
[root at border-t2 ~]# netstat -anp | grep tcp
tcp        0      0 :::22                       :::*
LISTEN      2545/sshd
tcp        0      0 ::ffff:10.16.1.73:22        ::ffff:10.16.1.244:2389
ESTABLISHED 2805/2
tcp        0     52 ::ffff:10.16.1.73:22        ::ffff:10.16.1.244:2128
ESTABLISHED 2669/0
tcp        0      0 ::ffff:10.16.1.73:22        ::ffff:10.16.1.244:2379
ESTABLISHED 2699/1
[root at border-t2 ~]#
[root at border-t2 ~]# netstat -anp | grep 179
[root at border-t2 ~]#


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-bird-users at atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz
[mailto:owner-bird-users at atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz] On Behalf Of Ondrej
Zajicek
Sent: Saturday, July 10, 2010 11:58 AM
To: Vladislav Grishin
Cc: bird-users at trubka.network.cz
Subject: Re: BGP Error: No listening socket

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).

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