Add/Remove advertisements via birdc (or other mecanism)?

[Anthony Hoppe]

Hello,

We are currently using GoBGP with keepalived and are looking to switch
to BIRD.  We currently have keepalived inject the VIPs into GoBGP via
the following quorum_up and quorum_down commands:

quorum_up   "/usr/bin/gobgp global rib add -a ipv4 [VIP-ADDRESS]/32"
quorum_down "/usr/bin/gobgp global rib del -a ipv4 [VIP-ADDRESS]/32"

Is there a similar mechanism with BIRD?  Right now what I've done is
instead I'm having keepalived add/remove the VIPs to/from a dummy
interface and have the dummy interface as one of the interested
interfaces under protocol direct.

quorum_up   "/usr/bin/ip address add [VIP-ADDRESS]/32 dev VIPs"
quorum_down "/usr/bin/ip address delete [VIP-ADDRESS]/32 dev VIPs"

This works as expected, when keepalived adds the VIPs BIRD exports
them and when keepalived removes the VIPs BIRD stops exporting them.

However, I am still curious if there is a mechanism where I can tell
keepalived to tell BIRD directly to advertise them?

Thanks!

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