Bird hangs on startup (MIPS, EdgeOS 1.6.0, Debian wheezy)

[Ondrej Zajicek]

On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 04:49:02PM +0100, Joel Brunenberg wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am new to this list so please excuse, if I do look a little bit
> clumsy.
> 
> I have a problem with bird 1.3.7 (debian wheezy 1.3.7-1) on mips,
> namingly EdgeOS 1.6.0 on an EdgeRouter Lite. I am trying to set up Bird
> to be able to use OSPF on Interfaces that are not supported by EdgeOS
> natively. Before you let me burn in hell for having that idea, please
> let me explain my problems.
> 
> 1) On my platform does not start but hangs forever before the fork can
> take place - this is, if I have the "device" protocol enabled which I of
> cause need. I can reproduce that on several devices using the following
> minimal config (given another config without the device proto, bird
... 
> I saw this Post in the mailinglist from 2013:
> 
>  http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.network.bird.user/2371
> 
> bit I am not sure if the two issues are related.

Hi

It is most likely the same problem. There is a simple solution - use 1.4.5
from wheezy-backports:

https://packages.debian.org/wheezy-backports/bird
http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/b/bird/bird_1.4.5-1~bpo70+1_mips.deb

That works on my EdgeRouter Lite (although i have regular Debian Wheezy 7.5
on it instead of EdgeOS, with kernel from the original EdgeOS - 2.6.32.13-UBNT).


> 2) I use DHCP to get an IP on my WAN interface (cable modem) and the
> broadcast address on the interface after configuration is
> 255.255.255.255, which is not the right broadcast address for the IP
> assigned. If I do not fix that before starting bird, I get the following
> error
> 
>  Feb 27 16:16:14 bel bird: KIF: Invalid broadcast address \
>  255.255.255.255 for eth1
> 
> Of cause, bird is right and the interface broadcast address is wrong. My
> question is: Is this a fatal error? The interface eth1 is not relevant
> to me. Can I leave the Broadcast address as it is or will this break
> bird even if not "using" this interface anywhere?

No, you could ignore this warning.

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