[ixpmanager] Route Server Install Bird 2

[Sam Malyon]

Hey Guys,

Thanks for that.  I just put the <handle> etc in to clean the info for you.  I was having issues with the 32 bit ASN and it ended up bringing up issues with parsing the config. The second I ran a 16bit ASN through it it ran perfectly without errors.

I ran in debug and it told me about the parsing error (ERROR: non-zero return from ${BIN} when parsing $dest) then I ran that actual command myself and it came up with a (ERROR on line 183) of the router config which for me, was

If (0, routeserverasn) ~ bgp_community then return false;

I read slightly up from it about the 16 & 32 bit ASN and put in a private range ASN just to try the theory, and it ran without fail. I have had it running every 5 min for 6 hours and hasn't failed once.

I'm going to give APNIC a call tomorrow and see if they can get us a 16bit ASN asap.

Kind Regards,
Sam

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From: Barry O'Donovan <barry.odonovan at inex.ie>
Sent: Monday, April 13, 2020 7:49:53 PM
To: INEX IXP Manager Users Mailing List <ixpmanager at inex.ie>; Nick Hilliard <nick at foobar.org>
Cc: Sam Malyon <Sam at commsphere.com.au>
Subject: Re: [ixpmanager] Route Server Install Bird 2



Nick Hilliard wrote on 13/04/2020 10:26:
> Barry O'Donovan wrote on 13/04/2020 10:06:
>> That said, I checked the Bird templates and I do not see any issue
>> with using a 32bit ASN. Nor, to my knowledge, does (or has) IXP
>> Manager ever prevented an administrator from creating a route with a
>> 32bit ASN.
>
> it would break the default rfc1997 community set.  This could be worked
> around fairly easily, but it doesn't look like the template would
> function properly as-is.

What Nick is talking about here is this improvement we made this morning:

https://github.com/inex/IXP-Manager/commit/4372d79a57de24b8bf4547383bfd9603291f77b1


This won't affect IXP Manager directly and wouldn't have stopped Bird
from running with a 32bit ASN.

  - Barry

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