bird + RIP = crash

Ondrej Zajicek santiago at crfreenet.org
Tue Sep 17 11:44:59 CEST 2013


On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 07:16:10PM +0600, Eugene M. Zheganin wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> I'm  trying to get rid of quagga on most of my routers. When they run
> BGP/OSPF everything is fine, but when it comes to RIP, bird crashes.
> I run bird on a set of VPN tunnels, mostly gre. I need RIP because Cisco
> marketoids keep on manufacturing small boxes that cannot run OSPF, only
> RIP is available.
> Bird crashes as soon as the protocol exchange is started.

If you use BIRD as RIP with multiple ifaces on FreeBSD, you
probably have this error message in logs:

<ERR> sk_open: bind: Address already in use

And the crash is related. You could use attached patch as a workaround.

-- 
Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo

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