[ixpmanager] BIRD 3 Support

[Barry O'Donovan]

> On 24 Oct 2025, at 03:53, Richard Laager <rlaager at wiktel.com> wrote:
> 
> That's what shipped on Ubuntu 22.04.

NIC.CZ have made the following available which is very useful:

https://pkg.labs.nic.cz/doc/?project=bird

- Barry

> 
>> At INEX, we’re running 2.17.2 with no issues,
> 
> 2.17.2 must be git then, as AFAICT, 2.17.1 is still the latest release.
> 
>> but we have updated the template slightly - see the main branch:
>> https://github.com/inex/IXP-Manager/tree/main/resources/views/api/v4/ router/server/bird2-2025 <https://github.com/inex/IXP-Manager/tree/main/ resources/views/api/v4/router/server/bird2-2025>
>> The standard Bird2 templates should work fine, but there’ll be some complaints in the logs due to configuration language improvements in newer versions.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> I've built 2.17.1 on Ubuntu 22.04. I'll give that a try, tentatively tomorrow, on one of our route servers.
> 
> If it's just going to be log messages, I'll stick to the existing templates. But if there are more issues, I'll refer to the bird2-2025 templates. I diffed the two directories and the changes look pretty straightforward.
> 
>> We’ll cut a new release during November to make these official.
> 
> Hopefully you can address this at the same time:
> https://github.com/inex/IXP-Manager/pull/852
> 
> --
> Richard
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