RFC 9234 (BGP roles) possible bug

[Ondrej Zajicek]

On Thu, May 11, 2023 at 05:27:01PM +0200, Ondrej Zajicek wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Yes, it is a bug in BIRD. When BGP capability option is parsed, the
> capability structure is initialized with the proper default value, but
> when there is no BGP capability option altogether (like in these case),
> the capability structure is just zeroed. Unfortunately, RFC 9234 is the
> only supported capability that has non-zero default value (0xff), zero
> is 'provider'. Will fix that.

Here is a patch:

https://gitlab.nic.cz/labs/bird/-/commit/f8ba82804faba5cc1520d4545330502e29b9e920

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