bird3 package upgrades - graceful restart?
Christoph
cm at appliedprivacy.net
Mon Jan 5 00:36:19 CET 2026
Hello,
since we moved from debian packages to your package repo
(pkg.labs.nic.cz) we probably will see more regular updates.
Therefor we are curious whether a bird3 package update will
interrupt packet forwarding on a BIRD3 BGP router?
For example now with the current pending update
apt list --upgradable
bird3/trixie 3.2.0-cznic.1~trixie amd64 [upgradable from:
3.1.5-cznic.1~trixie]
Should we manually run
"birdc graceful restart"
before running "apt upgrade"
or is this done automatically on package upgrades?
best regards,
Christoph
relevant config snippets:
/etc/bird/envvars:
BIRD_RUN_USER=bird
BIRD_RUN_GROUP=bird
BIRD_ARGS=-R
bird.conf snippets:
[...]
protocol kernel {
ipv4 { export all; };
graceful restart yes;
persist yes;
learn yes;
}
protocol kernel {
ipv6 { export all; };
graceful restart yes;
persist yes;
learn yes;
}
template bgp bgp_base4 {
graceful restart on;
[...]
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