Using BIRD to inject a route into BGP

[Ondrej Zajicek]

On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 08:53:36PM +0000, Eric Vyncke (evyncke) wrote:
> Mainly for lab experimentation, I would like to be able to dynamically inject several IPv6 routes into BGP.
> 
> Creating a static route on the Linux running BIRD does not seem to grab
> the kernel route (even when doing "ip -6 route add ... proto
> [static|kernel]..." My config has "import all;export all" for kernel &
> device protocols + "learn on"

If BIRD did not learn the route (i.e., it is not seen in 'show route'),
then you could check logs for errors, or add 'debug all' to the kernel
protocol.

Options import, export for device protocol is irrelevant.

Note that you would need export all also for BGP protocol.

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