BIRD 3.3.0 Issue with bgp listen in VRF

David Petera david.petera at nic.cz
Fri Jun 5 15:48:34 CEST 2026


Hi,

thanks for the report, we will look into it.

Happy routing,
David

David Petera (he/him) | BIRD Tech Support | CZ.NIC, z.s.p.o.

On 6/2/26 09:46, Arnaud Houdelette-Langlois via Bird-users wrote:
>
> Hello.
>
> I’m currently trying to setup an EVPN SDN with proxmox (FRR) and bird 
> for route reflectors and gateways.
>
> My RR  BGP conf is like :
>
> template bgp vtep {
>   vrf "vrf-underlay";
>    local as 65000;
>    source address router_id;
>    rr client;
>    #rr cluster id 172.16.2.20;
>
>    evpn {
>     table evpnrr;
>     igp table underlay;
>     import all;
>     export all;
>    };
> }
> protocol bgp uproxrtr1 from vtep {
>    neighbor 172.16.2.21 internal;
> }
>
> This is working as long as bird is establishing the connexion. But the 
> listening socket is opened in the default VRF.
>
> The issue disapear with bird 2.19.0, so I’ll stick with it for now.
>
>
>
> -- 
>
> Arnaud HOUDELETTE-LANGLOIS
> Administrateur systèmes et réseaux informatiques
> Responsable de la sécurité des systèmes d'information
> Normandie-Université
> +33 2 31 56 69 54


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