bird2: channel down in direct protocol

[Ondrej Zajicek]

On Sun, Aug 19, 2018 at 06:14:52PM +0200, Alarig Le Lay wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I would like to import interfaces routes in my bird instance, so I wrote
> this into my configuration:
> 
> protocol direct {
>         ipv6;
> }
> 
> But the channel is down when I look thought birdc:
> 
> bird> show protocols all direct1
> Name       Proto      Table      State  Since         Info
> direct1    Direct     ---        up     17:42:58.641
>   Channel ipv6
>     State:          DOWN
>     Table:          master6
>     Preference:     240
>     Input filter:   ACCEPT
>     Output filter:  REJECT
>
> 
> And of course, I have routes on my interfaces:
> 
> samis ~ # ip -6 r sh
> 2a00:5884::/64 dev eth1 proto kernel metric 256 pref medium
> 2a00:5884:0:5::/64 dev brlxc proto kernel metric 256 pref medium
> fe80::/64 dev eth0 proto kernel metric 256 pref medium

And do you have routes in BIRD? This output are routes from kernel, which
are here regardless of BIRD.


> I don’t see anything in the documentation to force a channel to be up.
> What am I missing?

It should be UP by default when a protocol is enabled.

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