What about putting the interface with the IPv6 address of "2a03:2260:0:195::2" into the VRF in kernel?
What is the output of `ip vrf show vrf_freifunk`?
On 28/12/2018 15:10, Ralf Jung wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am playing around with VRFs in our network, and I am having trouble getting
> bird6 to establish its BGP sessions inside a VRF. Strangely, bird for IPv4
> works with pretty much the same configuration.
>
> I have attached the full configuration. The (I think) interesting bits are
>
>> template bgp ffrl_uplink {
>> table ffrl;
>> vrf "vrf_freifunk";
>> local as 64899;
>> import keep filtered;
>> import filter ebgp_ffrl_import_filter;
>> export filter ebgp_ffrl_export_filter;
>> next hop self;
>> direct;
>> };
>>
>> protocol bgp ffrl_b_ak from ffrl_uplink {
>> source address 2a03:2260:0:195::2;
>> neighbor 2a03:2260:0:195::1 as 201701;
>> };
>
> In the logs, all I get (with `debug all;` added) is
>
>> Dez 28 13:05:25 gw1.saar.freifunk.net bird6[24900]: ffrl_b_ak: Connecting to
>> 2a03:2260:0:195::1 from local address 2a03:2260:0:195::2
>> Dez 28 13:05:25 gw1.saar.freifunk.net bird6[24900]: ffrl_b_ak: Socket error:
>> bind: Cannot assign requested address
>> Dez 28 13:05:25 gw1.saar.freifunk.net bird6[24900]: ffrl_b_ak: Connection
>> closed
>> Dez 28 13:05:26 gw1.saar.freifunk.net bird6[24900]: ffrl_b_ak: Connect
>> delayed by 5 seconds
>
> I tried adding `interface "tun-up-ffrl_b_ak";` (that's the interface which has
> the address 2a03:2260:0:194::2), to no avail. I also tried adding `interface
> "vrf_freifunk";`, which made the error messages go away but still no peer is
> listed in `birdc6 show route table ffrl`.
> My IPv4 configuration is almost the same, and yet there finding peers works.
> (Actually routing traffic doesn't work yet, but that may also be a problem
> with
> our NAT setup.)
>
> Note that I have very little experience with BGP, we use it only in an
> internal
> instance for peering with our uplink.
>
>>From some googling I found
> <https://bird.network.cz/pipermail/bird-users/2017-August/011440.html> which
> recommends adding `direct;`, but I already have that set.
>
> This is using bird 1.6.4, Linux 4.18, Debian stable.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Kind regards,
> Ralf
>
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Cheers
Christoffer
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