Automating BIRD configuration

[Vasiliy Tolstov]

In our cloud hosting we do simple add ip route to kernel table with
blackhole, bird import it and announce to uplink bgp.
This is simple and don't need to reload bird. Create route you can via
iproute or netlink in you app.
вт, 19 июн. 2018 г. в 21:21, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke at toke.dk>:
>
> Matthias Merkel <matthias at boltn-hosting.com> writes:
>
> > We're trying to integrate BIRD with our automated DDoS detection and
> > mitigation system. For this we need a way to have our software create
> > static routes (to be more exact blackholes) and add BGP communities to
> > announcements.
> >
> > Is there any way to do using CLI or control socket or would we have to
> > make the software modify the config file and reload BIRD?
>
> You cannot modify individual configuration parameters from the
> cli/control socket, you'll have to reload the config file. The model I
> use for this (in my case to dynamically update BGP filters using bgpq3)
> is to include additional configuration files from the main config. These
> additional files contain configuration snippets; mainly variable
> definitions with lists of networks. These are then used in filters
> (defined in the main config) to implement the desired policy.
>
> -Toke



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e-mail: v.tolstov at selfip.ru