BGP not starting

[Thomas St-Pierre]

Hi Ondrej,

Thanks for the info!

I also had to add protocol direct so that I could resolve the next-hops (otherwise the nexthops were unreachable). It's working now, Thanks!

Thomas

On 2012-11-01, at 4:36 AM, Ondrej Zajicek wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 11:08:28PM +0000, Thomas St-Pierre wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I'm a new BIRD user so I may be missing something, if so please forgive me.
>> 
>> I created a simple config for an ibgp neighbor:
>> 
>> template bgp rr_client {
>> 	local as XXXXX;
>> 	rr client;
>> 	import all;
>> 	export all;
>> 
>> }
>> protocol bgp R1 from rr_client {
>> 	neighbor 172.19.242.51 as XXXXX;
>> }
>> 
>> The other end is a cisco router with a similarly simple config. 
>> 
>> However when I start up bird I get "Waiting for 172.19.242.51 to become my neighbor", and nothing ever happens. bird doesn't start listening on 179 either.
>> 
>> For information, both bgp endpoints are in the same /24 subnet (ie directly connected). However if I add multihop then it comes up and everything's great.
>> 
>> Is there a reason why I have to use multi hop when the devices are on the same lan?
> 
> You are probably missing protocol device section in BIRD config,
> therefore no interfaces (and local subnets) are found.
> Add 'protocol device { }' to your config file.
> 
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