[ixpmanager] ixp manager

[Barry O'Donovan]

Nikhil,

As per yesterday's request:


Could you send the complete generated config file to us with the actual 
resultant configuration?

If you want to keep it offlist, please send to operations at inex.ie.

Can you also tell us what version of Bird you are running?

  - Barry


On 27/11/2014 20:57, Nikhil Rathi wrote:
> I haven't used IRRDB filtering . I noticed whaterver was advertised to the
> route server (BIRD) was stored in the master table but not advertised to
> the peer
> As a test case we setup 2 peers advertised a dummy range on each side.
> Eg Peer A advertises 1 and Peer B advertises 2.   Now A should see 2 and B
> should see 1 in their routing tables.
> This was not happening .
> Although the routes were received by bird they were not sent to other
> peer.
>
> This made me change it to "export all" and that made 1 go to B and 2 to A
>
> On 27/11/14 7:19 pm, "Nick Hilliard" <nick at inex.ie> wrote:
>
>> Hi Nikhil,
>>
>> Are you sure that this isn't related to irrdb filtering?  Did you follow
>> the guide here:
>>
>> https://github.com/inex/IXP-Manager/wiki/IRRDB-Prefixes
>>
>> You can see whether this is working by enabling the Route Server Prefix
>> Analysis Tool, periodically running compare-route-server-prefixes.pl on
>> the
>> route servers themselves and checking in the Web UI that the prefix set
>> looks correct for each IXP participant.
>>
>> Nick
>>
>>
>> On 26/11/2014 19:59, Nikhil Rathi wrote:
>>> Posting to the group
>>>
>>> If theres mistake please point out. It works for the Bird peers and
>>> sends
>>> and receives everything it learns
>>>
>>>> This is what I changed to get the routes advertised by each peer to go
>>>> through
>>>>
>>>> In application/views/router-cli/server/bird/neighbor.cfg
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> protocol pipe pp_{$int.fvliid}_as{$int.autsys} {
>>>>         description "Pipe for AS{$int.autsys} - {$int.cname} - VLAN
>>>> Interface {$int.vliid}";
>>>>         table master;
>>>>         mode transparent;
>>>>         peer table t_{$int.fvliid}_as{$int.autsys};
>>>>         import filter f_import_{$int.fvliid}_as{$int.autsys};
>>>>         #export where ixp_community_filter({$int.autsys}); -- THIS IS
>>>> COMMENTED OUT
>>>>         export all; ------ THIS IS THE CHANGE
>>>> }
>>>>
>>>> If we leave it as is then bird does not advertise anything to the
>>>> neighbor
>>>> although it does have the routes from each neighbour in its master
>>>> table.
>>>> What we wanted was unilater peering executed. Everybody connects to a
>>>> single route server and receives all the routes by the other peer
>>>>
>>>> RGDS
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 24/11/14 8:56 pm, "Nick Hilliard" <nick at netability.ie> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi Nikhil,
>>>>>
>>>>> Your issue sounds very much it's related to IRRDB filtering.  If you
>>>>> follow
>>>>> up on ixpmanager at inex.ie, we can help you out with the issue there.
>>>>>
>>>>> Nick
>>>>>
>>>>> On 23/11/2014 20:27, Nikhil Rathi wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> We used bird and the config generated created separate tables for
>>>>>> each
>>>>>> peer. So although the router server received routes until I did not
>>>>>> hard
>>>>>> code export all instead of export ixp+peerŠ.(ASN) it did not
>>>>>> advertise
>>>>>> all
>>>>>> routes learned from 1 to the other
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 22/11/14 7:15 pm, "Nick Hilliard" <nick at netability.ie> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hi Nikhil,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> If you subscribe to ixpmanager at inex.ie, maybe we could answer the
>>>>>>> question
>>>>>>> there?  Probably it's something relatively straightforward.  We can
>>>>>>> provide
>>>>>>> commercial support if you want, though.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Nick
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 21/11/2014 19:33, Nikhil Rathi wrote:
>>>>>>>> Hi
>>>>>>>> We are a new open IX in India and not for profit. Having trouble
>>>>>>>> with
>>>>>>>> bird
>>>>>>>> not exporting to the route server clients based on the
>>>>>>>> configuration
>>>>>>>> file
>>>>>>>> from the IXPManager
>>>>>>>> Is this something you could help us fix ?
>>>>>>>> If you charge for this can you please let us know your hourly fees
>>>>>>>> ?
>>>>>>>> RGDS
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>
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