New in BIRD

[Ilias Pallikarakis]

Hi,
Sorry for the trouble. The version I am using is 1.4.3

Ilias
On 5/21/14, 1:15 PM, Dmitry S. Nikolaev wrote:
> 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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>
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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
>