BIRD2 BFD only listen on IPv6 or IPv4

[Stefan Plug]

I think one of the problems is that the BFD protocol doesn’t seem to accept the ipv4/6 channels like the other protocols.
That would probably already solve this?




> On 5. Nov 2020, at 17:12, Stefan Plug <stefan.plug at megaport.com> wrote:
> 
> Hey guys,
> 
> BIRD2 2.0.7
> 
> I want to run 2 BIRD2 Daemons, one with ipv4 config and one with ipv6 config, just like as with BIRD1 this works fine for BGP.
> 
> However, I have noticed that it doesn’t seem possible (?) to point BFD within a daemon to only listen to ipv4 or ipv6 which will make both daemons listen to both protocols regardless of if they even have any ipv4 or ipv6 configuration.
> 
> This means that if daemon1 was first then all BFD packets will got to daemon1 and not to daemon2, so no BFD will come up in daemon2.
> 
> Is there a way to tell BIRD2 to only listen to ipv4 or ipv6 with BFD?
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Stefan
> 
> 
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