Reacting to Link Failure

[Ondrej Zajicek]

On Fri, Dec 22, 2017 at 08:46:28AM -0500, Liam Kelly wrote:
> Is there any way for other programs to listen for Bird events regarding Link Failure (IE: OSPF/BFD dead neighbor)? 
> 
> Bird is great, but the modems and device drivers I am working with are
> not. I can get some pretty odd ‘zombie’ states on network interfaces, and
> the BFD session going down is often the best indicator something bad
> happened. I was hoping to get that information from bird and take actions
> to fix it.

Hi

One way is to add 'debug { events };' to OSPF protocol and use log
matching features of newer syslog daemons (like rsyslog).

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Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo

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