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[Dmitry S. Nikolaev]

Hi.

You did not write: what version of BIRD do you use ?

IPv4:
a) Enable debug:
protocol bgp {
   ....
   debug all;
}
Than check log. What is there ?

b) BGP neighbors are in one IP subnet ?

c) Try to set source address in bgp section:
source address XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX;

IPv6:
You must set router id in bird6.conf. See bird6.conf.example:
router id 198.51.100.1;

Router id must be IPv4 address, not IPv6 address.

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With best regards, Dmitry S. Nikolaev

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On 21.05.2014 04:13, Ilias Pallikarakis wrote:
> Hi,
> I recently started trying to learn BIRD. I should also mention I have
> no previous experience with any other Routing daemon either.
> I want to configure a bgp monitor for both ipv4 and ipv6. I am running
> BIRD in a Ubuntu 13.10 VM. I managed to install both
> bird and bird6 but I have some problems with the configurations.
> In ipv4 :
> I created a very simple configuration which I attach. The conf is
> compiled but in birdc the bgp session is considered idle. I tried to
> do a tcpdump and found that the router sends a  TCP SYN on the VM's
> bgp port but the VM responds with a RST and never tries to
> set a BGP session itself.
>
> In ipv6 :
> No matter the configuration (my configuration or the sample coming
> with bird6 or examples found on the web) the configuration is
> not compiled giving the following error :
>  BIRD ipv6 doesn't run (bird: /usr/local/etc/bird6.conf, line 1:
> Router ID must be configured manually on IPv6 routers)
>
> Could anyone give me some pointers on what I am doing wrong ?
>
> Thank you for your help,
>
> Ilias Pallikarakis