On Tue, Dec 06, 2016 at 04:08:06PM +0100, Damien Clabaut wrote: > Hello, > > For performance reasons that do not deserve to be detailed here, I am > trying to set up 2 separate BGP sessions between my Linux server running > Bird and an Arista switch. > > The Linux machines has 2 IPs on loopback, i would like to initiate a > connexion from each of them. > > I have IPs 192.168.0.11 and 192.168.0.12 on the server loopback, and > 192.168.0.1 on the switch loopback. ... > Can you confirm this is a limitation in Bird ? Is there a reason for it, > apart from the fact that it is a non-standard case ? Is there a way to > bypass it ?
Hello This is a limitation in BIRD - it does not allow two BGP sessions to the same remote IP address. The solution is to use two IP addresses also on the other side (switch). -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Ondrej 'Santiago' Zajicek (email: [email protected]) OpenPGP encrypted e-mails preferred (KeyID 0x11DEADC3, wwwkeys.pgp.net) "To err is human -- to blame it on a computer is even more so."
