Unable to get Bird 2 to listen on the BGP socket

[Maria Matejka]

What user runs BIRD? 179 is lesser than 1024 so only root can bind to 
it. BIRD doesn't even attempt if it is not root. On linux, BIRD can drop 
all privileges except for privileged port binding almost immediately 
after startup; see bird -h for more info.

Maria

On 9/3/20 12:57 AM, Skyler Mäntysaari wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> I’m fairly certain that my issue is something rather small, or stupid 
> but I’m unable to get Bird to listen on the 179 port.
> 
> The other side has direct in the protocol definition which is correct, 
> and I tried this side with that as well but it only says 
> “as213021_hel_node: Waiting for fe80:10::1%wg1 to become my neighbor” so 
> I don’t really have more clues.
> 
> I did try to do strace and look for bind events, but couldn’t find any 
> except for the control socket.
> 
> My config can be seen here: https://dpaste.com/6P6NAUPNX & peer config: 
> https://dpaste.com/HJ3SNL8RH
>