Debugging advertised prefixes that are seemingly never seen by BIRD

Andy Smith andy at strugglers.net
Thu Nov 3 10:26:31 CET 2022


Hi Ondrej,

On Mon, Oct 31, 2022 at 03:21:16PM +0100, Ondrej Zajicek via Bird-users wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 29, 2022 at 10:29:25PM +0000, Andy Smith via Bird-users wrote:
> > The session establishes and 2001:db8::64:607b sends me some 591 IPv6
> > prefixes, however only 385 of them end up in my routing table,
> > without any logging as to why.

[…]

> Debugging is fixed in v2.0.9, now it logs a detailed reason and all
> rejected prefixes.

Good to know. I will see about doing an upgrade.

> If 2001:db8::64:608a is not directly reachable, but reachable through
> another route, then you need recursive next hop resolution.

Thanks, yes, it was the nexthops. The operator of the other end changed
the nexthops and now it works, but we will bear in mind "gateway
recursive" setting.

Thanks,
Andy


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