Using BIRD to inject a route into BGP

[Eric Vyncke (evyncke)]

Indeed the debug provided enough information to make it work :-)

On 16/04/16 01:03, "Ondrej Zajicek" <santiago at crfreenet.org> wrote:

>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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