Questions tagged [bird]
BIRD was an open source implementation of an Internet protocol suite routing daemon providing features like Routing Information Protocol (RIP), Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) for Unix like systems.
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Experiences with BIRD for BGP?
We're currently using Quagga with Debian Linux to run a full table BGP router. The set-up has been dead simple up to now, but we've come to a point where I have to reconfigure the router quite a bit, ...
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Internet Routing with BIRD
I am testing BIRD to put into production to replace several VPN appliances I am using to route to my AWS site. I've never used BIRD before so please forgive ignorance/ If I put a test windows ...
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chef recipe with external provisioning dependencies
In all Chef examples that I've seen autoscaling works pretty easy - you provision something like DB host, then web servers. You can create as many webservers as you like - all of them are going to use ...
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OSPF routers (with BIRD on debian) recognize each other as neighbors but can't ping each other
I've created a "line" topology using virtual box - creating 4 machines and making a separate link between each using internal networks - R1 (eth0, 10.0.1.1) <-> (eth0, 10.0.2.1) R2 (eth2, 10.0.2.2) ...
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How can I configure a BIRD router to communicate to a neighbor on a different subnet?
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I'm attempting to set up basic communication with the RIPv2 protocol between two hosts running the BIRD routing daemon.
I've got Host A with an interface enp0 that has address 10.0.1....
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How can I limit OSPF route visibility between different areas?
I have a fairly simple network setup as seen in the attached image. The network is spread across two more or less similar data centers which are connected via a static OpenVPN tunnel. Both the VPN ...
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internet access for system over multiple hops of ipsec using GRE and OSPF
I have the following setup:
linux client @ 172.16.10.68
linux gateway @ 172.16.10.69, ipsec tunnel to aws box #1, gre tunnel
10.254.0.0/30
aws box #1, ipsec tunnel from linux gw, ipsec tunnel to ...
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BIRD iBGP - Route not reachable
i have two machines participating in the DN42 network, a darknet driven by the Chaos Computer Club and others to play around with advanced routing techniques like BGP and stuff.
The machines are ...
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Redundant Debian Gateway
I have to configure a redundant gateway with Debian boxes and I would like to get some recommendation
what's the best solution in my case. There are certain limitations in my setup and I have to go ...
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BIRD BGP Advertise Network with different gateway
I'm looking to use BIRD or similar to advertise a route from a linux box sitting on 169.254.0.3 (on a /28 for eg) to the router at 169.254.0.1 (Which happens to be AWS).
The route advertised to AWS ...
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load balancing with Bird
I have the following routes pushed into my edge router
192.0.10.0/32 via 192.168.166.110 on br166 [master01 22:53:55] * (100) [AS64514?]
via 192.168.166.116 on br166 [worker_03 ...
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StrongSwan and Bird BGP route propagation
I have the following networks successfully connected through IPSec StrongSwan tunnel (ie. I can ping both sides through private IP addresses):
VPS1: 192.168.8.44 -- VPS2: 192.168.1.21
I want to ...
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Bird2 BGP [unreachable XXXX dev lo proto bird metric 32 pref medium]
The information I have obtained from the supplier is as follows.
Router ASN:AS56655
Router endpoint:2a03:94e0:f254::
Your endpoint:2a03:94e0:ffff:185:243:218::43
Multihop:Yes
Route table:Full
So I ...
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Bird imported from BGP doesn't have proper gateways
I'm having troubles in BIRD configuration, Let me share some background.
There are 2 hosts, host A is 192.168.0.188, and host B is 192.168.0.224. And created the new IP address on the loopback ...
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how to reach a subnet using a parent router via OSPF
I am trying to configure OSPF (using bird) to reach a subnet from a router that has no direct connection to the node with the subnet, something like this:
The AS has two networks, but for testing ...
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bird2 BGP how to announce subnets from the same ASN but from another router
I am trying to learn more about BGP / IPv6, this is my goal:
Currently, for testing, I have a VM from a provider that gives me an /44 network
This is the current configuration on that VM:
router id &...
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How to add the normal routing information of a router to BIRD?
Suppose the following network layout:
R1: R2:
10.1.1.0/24 <--- 10.1.1.1, 192.168.1.1 <----------> 192.168.1.2, 10.1.2.1 ---> 10.1....
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How do I configure Bird to use OSPF?
I'm configuring a network with the following topology:
What I need to do is to provide a service that is available by Anycast and that is announced by OSPF. I managed to configure OSPF on the routers....
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For route command output, what does an asterisk under interface column mean?
For my Kubernetes nodes, I see following entry with a star under the interface column. I do not see this mentioned in "route" command's documentation. The only star mentioned there is for gateway. ...
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