[ixpmanager] Route Server Install Bird 2

[Barry O'Donovan]

Sam Malyon wrote on 13/04/2020 11:52:
> 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;

Okay, looks like I was wrong about Bird not tripping over that. That'll 
have been fixed now by the commit referenced below [1] should anyone 
/want/ to use a 32bit asn 😬

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

Good call.

  - Barry


[1] 
https://github.com/inex/IXP-Manager/commit/4372d79a57de24b8bf4547383bfd9603291f77b1


> 
> 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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