[ixpmanager] upgrade bird1 to bird2

[Ian Chilton]

Hmmm, actually, I can’t see this in the docs (at a glance) now.


We use scripts similar to the INEX ones to pull the config:
https://github.com/inex/IXP-Manager/tree/master/tools/runtime/route-servers

And then we use systems services like this to start the daemons:

—

[Unit]
Description=BIRD: ipv4
After=network.target

[Service]
Type=forking
ExecStart=/usr/sbin/bird -c /etc/bird-rs1-ipv4.conf -s 
/var/run/bird-ipv4.ctl -u bird -g bird
ExecReload=/usr/bin/kill -HUP $MAINPID
Restart=always

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

—

Ian



On 27 May 2021, at 16:15, Ian Chilton wrote:

> Hi,
>
> We upgraded from Bird v1.x to v2.x over 18 months ago now and it was 
> painless - we just deployed new servers with BIRD 2, RPKI and Large 
> Communities and switched over. It’s run without a problem since.
>
> We run separate daemons for v4 and v6 and pull the config from IXP 
> Manager.
>
> Kind Regards,
>
> Ian
>
>
> On 27 May 2021, at 16:05, Lisa Van Loo wrote:
>> We currently run BIRD1 with 2 deamons (1 IPv4 and 1 IPv6) and we want 
>> to upgrade to BIRD2.
>> However BIRD2 has only one deamon but IXP Manager will still generate 
>> 2 separate configurations for IPv4 and IPv6. How do you combine them?
>> Do you need to make a custom template? Is there a way to have 2 
>> deamons?
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