Bird within netns (no OS routing table injection with BGP)

[Alex Bligh]

Julien,

On 2 Nov 2013, at 13:17, Julien VAUBOURG wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I'm trying to use bird within netns with something like "ip netns exec foo bird".
> 
> I can see received routes in "show route" but the injection in the OS routing table is not done.
> 
> Strangely, static routes are correctly injected. With BGP routes I have no particulary debug messages, except "Netlink: Invalid argument" with bird6.
> 
> Using Quagga, routes are correctly injected inside netns.
> 
> Any idea about that problem?
> 
> * Bird 1.3.7-1
> * GNU/Linux (Debian Wheezy)


I've not used "ip netns exec" but I have successfully used unshare -n to do this.

-- 
Alex Bligh