[ixpmanager] BIRD2 configuration question

[Barry O'Donovan]

Hi Tom,

depending on the version we need, we either use apt installed versions 
or compiled versions - little note on compiling here:

https://docs.ixpmanager.org/features/rpki/#enabling-rpki

Regardless, what I do is I disable the init.d scripts (e.g. systemctl 
disable bird).

I then use two scripts. The first takes a router handle as defined in 
IXP Manager and starts and/or updates a Bird daemon:

https://github.com/inex/IXP-Manager/blob/master/tools/runtime/route-servers/api-reconfigure-example-birdv2.sh

The second is run by cron (e.g. every couple hours) to update from IXP 
Manager /and/ it also kicks off from rc.local when the operating system 
boots up:

https://github.com/inex/IXP-Manager/blob/master/tools/runtime/route-servers/api-reconfigure-all.sh

Does that help?

  - Barry






Tom Duff wrote on 06/04/2021 14:15:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> We're trying to transition from Birdv1 to v2 at our IX, and I was
> looking through the ixpmanager mailing list archives to see if anyone
> had any info about running two instances of BIRD v2 on the same box. I
> saw this thread in which it was explained the decision behind not
> unifying the config:
> 
>   https://www.inex.ie/pipermail/ixpmanager/2019-August/002328.html
> 
> ...which makes sense to me, but I've gone through all the bird docs,
> and I cannot for the life of me figure out how to run an apt-installed
> version of BIRD 2.0.7 as two separate daemons. I'm now thinking
> there's no way to use the packaged version of bird, and compiling two
> separate instances of BIRD v2 and running one with the IPv4-specific
> config and one with the IPv6-specific config is what people are doing?
>   Or is there some kind of compile-time flag that spits out the two
> separate binaries (bird and bird6) like bird v1 used to have? I could
> use a nudge in the right direction
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> --Tom
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Kind regards,
Barry O'Donovan
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