Bird 1.6.3 path prepending ?

[Alexander Zubkov]

Hi,

Why do you think there are no prepends? Have you look at the receiving
side what is sent?

On Sat, Apr 27, 2019 at 9:16 PM Pieter De Wit <pieter at insync.za.net> wrote:
>
> Hi Everyone,
>
> I have been fighting with this now for a while and I can’t seem to get my paths prepended. I am running 1.6.3 from the Ubuntu repo.
>
> Network wise, I have a VPN server that takes VPNs from remote sites. This VPN server exports the ranges to the rest of the network. It learns the connected sites from a Raspberry PI on site. These links are used as backup paths :)
>
> Here is the BGP config on the server, from a remote site:
>
> The filters basically just restrict it to RFC1918 addresses
>
> protocol bgp bgp_site_1 {
>         description “site_1";
>         local as 65001;
>         neighbor 10.255.255.101 as 65101;
>         import filter remote_sites;
>         export filter export_to_remote_sites;
> }
>
> Here is the config on the remote site:
>
> filter prepend_path {
>         bgp_path.prepend(65101);
>         bgp_path.prepend(65101);
>         bgp_path.prepend(65101);
>         accept;
> }
>
> protocol bgp itc_vpn {
>         description "ITC VPN";
>         local as 65101;
>         neighbor 10.255.255.1 as 65001;
>         import all;
>         export filter prepend_path;
> }
>
> What am I missing ?
>
> Thanks !