Re: Graceful shutdown request signal

2023-06-20 Thread Maria Matejka via Bird-users
Hello Daniel, On 21 June 2023 01:03:50 CEST, "Daniel Gröber" wrote: >Hi Erin, > >On Tue, Jun 20, 2023 at 08:20:50PM +0200, Erin Shepherd wrote: >> I run bird on a system which uses systemd as a service supervisor, and >> would like to implement graceful restart in a way which works well with >>

Re: Graceful shutdown request signal

2023-06-20 Thread Daniel Gröber
Hi Erin, On Tue, Jun 20, 2023 at 08:20:50PM +0200, Erin Shepherd wrote: > I run bird on a system which uses systemd as a service supervisor, and > would like to implement graceful restart in a way which works well with > it. I'm also interested in getting this working. I'm wondering how graceful

Re: Graceful shutdown request signal

2023-06-20 Thread Vincent Bernat
On 2023-06-20 21:07, Maria Matejka via Bird-users wrote: Well, it's a pity that systemd doesn't allow for custom operations – in such case you could call "systemd graceful bird2" or "systemd restart bird2"… It's still possible to use systemctl kill --signal=USR2 bird2

Re: Graceful shutdown request signal

2023-06-20 Thread Maria Matejka via Bird-users
Hello! Well, it's a pity that systemd doesn't allow for custom operations – in such case you could call "systemd graceful bird2" or "systemd restart bird2"… Anyway, feel free to implement it, it should be like 10 lines of code. Sigusr2 is probably ok. Then it'll be on anybody to choose whether

Graceful shutdown request signal

2023-06-20 Thread Erin Shepherd
Hello, I run bird on a system which uses systemd as a service supervisor, and would like to implement graceful restart in a way which works well with it. In particular, what I'd like to do is: • If I restart the bird service (e.g. for an upgrade), Bird performs a graceful restart • If I manua

Re: Best practice Route Reflector

2023-06-20 Thread Nico Schottelius via Bird-users
Hello Douglas, ` Douglas Fischer writes: > - "I'm not going to use anything other than BGP. " I know where this is coming from, because we also came from there. Forget even the notion of next-hop self, in container (!) and application environments, BGP that gives you networking "for free"

Re: Best practice Route Reflector

2023-06-20 Thread Douglas Fischer
>From what I could see from your questions, the issues you have been facing are more related to the good use of IGP (eg OSPF, ISIS) and redistribution of routes through BGP than with the use or not of route-reflector. If you don't have an IGP "to call your own", something you REALLY trust, that'

Best practice Route Reflector

2023-06-20 Thread Oliver Seufer via Bird-users
Hello, I would like to gather some thoughts on whether I should use a Route Reflector or not, and if I do need one, what would be the best practice. Let's begin with the setup. I have four BGP routers located in two different data centers: * Each router (r1, r2, r3, r4) has an iBGP session estab