Hi Ondrej and all, my use of BIRD is on the amateur radio field over 'openvpn', 'ppp', and 'tun' links.
The compile and the install was OK on a linux 2.6.33 platform. After the kernel version 2.6.24 and so in my actual situation when start OSPF via the openvpn link it happens the AXUDP links used on the same linux machine are destroyed when receiving the routing bursts from the counterpart side. My OSPF peer use an old version of QUAGGA. After making some BIRD start and down the QUAGGA seems to freeze and don't reply anymore to the BIRD hello... then the AXUDP links in my machine arise and work again. On the 'ppp' type link from my linux machine to a Mikrotik router there are only HELLO signal from both sides and no exchange of routes, as shown below. gus --------------- root@ir0rm-7:/home/i0ojj# tcpdump -i ppp1 -vv tcpdump: listening on ppp1, link-type LINUX_SLL (Linux cooked), capture size 96 bytes 15:05:54.913651 IP (tos 0xc0, ttl 1, id 8981, offset 0, flags [none], proto OSPF (89), length 64) 10.58.2.3 > ospf-all.mcast.net: OSPFv2, Hello, length 44 Router-ID i0ojj.ampr.org, Area 0.0.0.254, Authentication Type: none (0) Options [External] Hello Timer 10s, Dead Timer 40s, Mask 255.255.255.255, Priority 1 Designated Router 10.58.2.3 15:05:55.914805 IP (tos 0xc0, ttl 1, id 46015, offset 0, flags [none], proto OSPF (89), length 68) i0ojj.cisarnet.ampr.org > ospf-all.mcast.net: OSPFv2, Hello, length 48 Router-ID 10.58.2.10, Area 0.0.0.254, Authentication Type: none (0) Options [External] Hello Timer 10s, Dead Timer 40s, Mask 0.0.0.0, Priority 1 Neighbor List: i0ojj.ampr.org 15:06:01.234654 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 64, id 0, offset 0, flags [DF], proto UDP (17), length 126) 10.58.2.3.5678 > 255.255.255.255.5678: UDP, length 98 15:06:04.907661 IP (tos 0xc0, ttl 1, id 8985, offset 0, flags [none], proto OSPF (89), length 64) 10.58.2.3 > ospf-all.mcast.net: OSPFv2, Hello, length 44 Router-ID i0ojj.ampr.org, Area 0.0.0.254, Authentication Type: none (0) Options [External] Hello Timer 10s, Dead Timer 40s, Mask 255.255.255.255, Priority 1 Designated Router 10.58.2.3 15:06:05.908301 IP (tos 0xc0, ttl 1, id 46022, offset 0, flags [none], proto OSPF (89), length 68) i0ojj.cisarnet.ampr.org > ospf-all.mcast.net: OSPFv2, Hello, length 48 Router-ID 10.58.2.10, Area 0.0.0.254, Authentication Type: none (0) Options [External] Hello Timer 10s, Dead Timer 40s, Mask 0.0.0.0, Priority 1 Neighbor List: i0ojj.ampr.org ^C 5 packets captured 5 packets received by filter On Wed, 2014-11-05 at 12:18 +0100, Ondrej Filip wrote: > Hi guys! > A new version of BIRD is close to be released. However there were a > lot of changes mainly in OSPF code. Therefore we would like to ask > you for some testing before the final version. So if you want to > help us, please download here: > > ftp://bird.network.cz/pub/bird/testing/bird-1.5.0pre.tar.gz > > And let us know if if you were able to test it. Both positive and > negative feedback is very welcome. > > Ondrej