BIRD 1.3.7

[Gustavo Ponza]

Hi everyone, developers and users,

having played (for the *first* time) the last
three months with the 'quagga' suite, incidentally,
just some days ago, I discovered the BIRD program
and want to try it... the router compiled and run
OK on my (production) 2.6.21 linux kernel platform.
So, since then, I installed it and now I'm learning
and practicing for the best working configuration,
focused for now, only on the 'ospf' environment in
which I'm concerned.

Since I experienced (at least it is for me) that the
newest quagga releases doesn't work on my alternate
2.4 linux platform (kernel 2.4.23), I tried the BIRD
on that and discovered it run OK... the ospf routing
processes seem regular without any problems, but:

1) at launch of bird appears on console the warning:
   'bird: Monotonic timer is missing'

furthermore, the *syslog* reports (from 'startup' to
'shutdown') the following lines:

May  6 08:25:31 ir0rm-7 bird: Monotonic timer is missing
May  6 08:25:44 ir0rm-7 bird: Netlink: File exists
May  6 08:26:33 ir0rm-7 last message repeated 3 times
May  6 08:27:33 ir0rm-7 last message repeated 3 times
May  6 08:28:33 ir0rm-7 last message repeated 3 times
May  6 08:29:33 ir0rm-7 last message repeated 3 times
...
...
May  6 08:49:37 ir0rm-7 bird: Netlink: No such process
May  6 08:49:37 ir0rm-7 bird: Shutdown completed

instead, the linux 'syslog' for 2.6 kernel reports
(from 'startup' to 'shutdown') only the following
lines:

May  6 08:25:44 ir0rm-7 bird: Netlink: File exists
May  6 08:26:33 ir0rm-7 last message repeated 3 times
May  6 08:27:33 ir0rm-7 last message repeated 3 times
May  6 08:28:33 ir0rm-7 last message repeated 3 times
May  6 08:29:33 ir0rm-7 last message repeated 3 times
May  6 08:30:33 ir0rm-7 last message repeated 3 times
...
...
May  6 08:49:37 ir0rm-7 bird: Shutdown completed


Now, reading the past Aug/Sep 2010 bird mailing lists,
a similar problem appears to be solved.

So, my question about the above warnings:

are they due to my systems or to my missed/wrong
setups; or instead a suddenly re-appearing
of such a warnings/(failure for 2.4?) messages?
No logging lines are setup on both 'bird.conf'
files.

TNX for your big efforts on improving the BIRD...
and for your kindly reply.

gus i0ojj