On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 04:55:21PM +0100, Simon Szustkowski wrote: > I have configured bird4 with the example config provided in the DN42 wiki > (https://dn42.net/howto/Bird) (sorry about the HTML entities). The result > is: Bird populates my routing table with all the correct routes, but spawns > very huge amounts of BGP traffic. I ran it overnight accidentally, and it > spawned over 70GB traffic on some interfaces, so these particular peers > closed their VPN tunnels to me, which is understandable. > I have created a minimal config by myself, which has the same result. > However, peering with quagga works as expected, with all routes and little > traffic.
Can you provide your configuration? Are you sure the large amount of traffic is BGP traffic, and not just a routing loop? You can try to log debug messages, see: http://bird.network.cz/?get_doc&f=bird-3.html#ss3.3 In your case, it's probably a good idea to use this in one of your BGP protocol: debug { packets }; (it may generate quite a lot of messages) Baptiste
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