Unable to get Bird 2 to listen on the BGP socket

[Ondrej Zajicek]

On Thu, Sep 03, 2020 at 01:57:57AM +0300, 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.

Hi

Based on the log it seems that the BGP protocol does not start because it
does not detect availability of neighbor IP address.

What is the output of 'show interfaces' and 'show protocols' command?

What is your BIRD version?

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