Force bird to update bgp route configuration after X seconds

Alexander Zubkov green at qrator.net
Tue Mar 28 08:45:04 CEST 2023


Hi,

If you mean you insert routes into the config file, than yes, you have to
call the configuration reload yourself. Bird doesn't reload the
configuration by itself as far as I know.


On Tue, Mar 28, 2023, 01:03 Pedro Henrique de Araújo Marques <
pedroam27 at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Good evening, I'm doing some tests with BIRD for a while now and I would
> like some help with a problem I'm facing. I have the following BIRD
> configuration:
>
> *router id 10.0.0.128;*
>
> *ipv4 table master4;*
> *ipv6 table master6;*
> *flow4 table flowtab4;*
> *flow6 table flowtab6;*
>
> *filter subnet_group1{*
> *                if(bgp_community.len = 0) then {*
> *                        bgp_community.add((555,555));*
> *                        accept;*
> *                }*
> *                else{ accept; }*
>
> *};*
>
> *protocol bgp uplink1{*
> *        local as 129;*
> *        neighbor 10.0.1.128 as 128;*
> *        multihop 1;*
> *        ipv4{*
> *                import filter { accept; };*
> *                export filter subnet_group1;*
> *        };*
> *        ipv6{*
> *                import filter { accept; };*
> *                export filter subnet_group1;*
> *        };*
> *};*
>
> *protocol static blackhole_ipv4_routes{*
> *        route 10.0.90.100/32 <http://10.0.90.100/32> blackhole;*
> *        route 10.0.90.99/32 <http://10.0.90.99/32> blackhole;*
> *        ipv4;*
> *};*
>
> I created a script that after some time it inserts some new routes into
> the  blackhole_ipv4_routes protocol defined above, let's say all of
> 10.0.0.0/24 for example. Is there an option that I could use in the
> config file to detect this change and update bird accordingly with the new
> table additions, or do I need to always call 'birdc -configure' after the
> script ends?
>
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