[ixpmanager] Route Server Install Bird 2

Barry O'Donovan barry.odonovan at inex.ie
Mon Apr 13 10:49:53 IST 2020



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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