Hi,
I recently started trying to learn BIRD. I should also mention I have no
previous experience with any other Routing daemon either.
I want to configure a bgp monitor for both ipv4 and ipv6. I am running
BIRD in a Ubuntu 13.10 VM. I managed to install both
bird and bird6 but I have some problems with the configurations.
In ipv4 :
I created a very simple configuration which I attach. The conf is
compiled but in birdc the bgp session is considered idle. I tried to
do a tcpdump and found that the router sends a TCP SYN on the VM's bgp
port but the VM responds with a RST and never tries to
set a BGP session itself.
In ipv6 :
No matter the configuration (my configuration or the sample coming with
bird6 or examples found on the web) the configuration is
not compiled giving the following error :
BIRD ipv6 doesn't run (bird: /usr/local/etc/bird6.conf, line 1: Router
ID must be configured manually on IPv6 routers)
Could anyone give me some pointers on what I am doing wrong ?
Thank you for your help,
Ilias Pallikarakis
#Logging to syslog
log syslog all;
#Dumping configuration
mrtdump “<filename>”;
#Router ID
router id <vm address>;
#Interface scanning
protocol device {
scan time 10;
}
#Kernel protocol
protocol kernel {
import all;
export none;
scan time 15;
}
#BGP configuration
protocol bgp {
import all;
export none;
local as <local AS>;
neighbor <router address> as <router as>;
mrtdump all;
}
