On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 08:00:10AM +0200, Patrick Schaaf wrote: > Hi, > > new bird / BGP user here, please bear with me :) > > Consider a scenario with a bird box acting as (one of several > possible) gateway for a set of clients, while having an iBGP and/or > upstream BGP connection where the "real routes" come from. > > Towards the client(s) a default route should be announced. > > Is it possible to make the client default route announcement depend on > at least one of the upstream peers (iBGP, real upstream) being "up" > and having sent us all its routes? Or, even more ideally, one of them > being up, having sent all its routes, _and_ bird having gotten around > to installing them all in the kernel (data plane)?
No, that is not currently possible directly in BIRD. You could make some shell scripts that tracks state of BGP sessions and/or number of routes and enable/disable a static protocol with default route. -- 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."
