Unable to get Bird 2 to listen on the BGP socket

[Skyler Mäntysaari]

I'm sorry if that message can be taken like that,  as that was not my intention.

On Thu, Sep 3, 2020, at 18:20, Neil Jerram wrote:
> I did look at https://dpaste.com/6P6NAUPNX, and saw that it had a template but no actual peers.  I misinterpreted "& peer config: https://dpaste.com/HJ3SNL8RH" as being the config for the BIRD at the other end of the peering, and so didn't check that, as you say.
> 
> Anyway, your response is rather unkind, to someone who was trying to help you.
> 
> On Thu, Sep 3, 2020 at 3:43 PM Skyler Mäntysaari <sm at samip.fi> wrote:
>> __
>> If you had taken the time to read the posted links,  you would see that it has peers,  using Link-Local addresses. 
>> 
>> On Thu, Sep 3, 2020, at 11:17, Neil Jerram wrote:
>>> Does your configuration have any BGP peers?  I've noticed that BIRD doesn't start listening until there is at least one BGP peer.
>>> 
>>> On Thu, Sep 3, 2020 at 12:12 AM Skyler Mäntysaari <sm at samip.fi> 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
>>>> 
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