Hello,
do you have
protocol device {}
in your config?
Maria
On 1 August 2024 20:41:23 CEST, Eric Robinson <[email protected]> wrote:
>Bird starts, and claims that it is waiting for the upstream routers to become
>neighbors...
>
>2024-07-31 06:25:25.774 isp1: Initializing
>2024-07-31 06:25:25.774 isp2: Initializing
>2024-07-31 06:25:25.774 isp1: Starting
>2024-07-31 06:25:25.774 isp1: State changed to start
>2024-07-31 06:25:25.774 isp2: Starting
>2024-07-31 06:25:25.774 isp2: State changed to start
>2024-07-31 06:25:25.774 Started
>2024-07-31 06:25:25.775 isp2: Waiting for 4.4.92.131 to become my neighbor
>2024-07-31 06:25:25.775 isp1: Waiting for 4.4.92.130 to become my neighbor
>
>...however, I can see in tcpdump that bird is refusing BGP connections...
>
>08:50:31.055601 IP 4.4.92.130.34302 > 4.4.92.140.179: Flags [S], seq
>733565924, win 16384, options [mss 1424,wscale 0,nop,sackOK,eol], length 0
>08:50:31.056685 IP 4.4.92.140.179 > 4.4.92.130.34302: Flags [R.], seq 0, ack
>733565925, win 0, length 0
>
>...and that's because bird is not listening...
>
>[root@fw9b log]# netstat -ant
>Active Internet connections (servers and established)
>Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State
>tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:22 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN
>tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:53 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN
>tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:8953 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN
>tcp6 0 0 :::1013 :::* LISTEN
>tcp6 0 0 :::444 :::* LISTEN
>tcp6 0 0 :::81 :::* LISTEN
>
>Bird is running...
>
>[root@fw9b log]# ps ax|grep bird
>20738 pts/0 S+ 0:00 grep bird
>29732 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/sbin/bird
>Strace shows that it is not binding to the port.
>
>I read a full thread about this exact symptom here:
>https://bird.network.cz/pipermail/bird-users/2020-September/014824.html
>
>Unfortunately, I'm brand new to bird and I was unable to follow some of it.
>
>-Eric
>
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Maria Matejka (she/her) | BIRD Team Leader | CZ.NIC, z.s.p.o.
