OSPF: Migrating Quagga to BIRD

Question

I need/want to migrate from Quagga to BIRD after several Quagga hiccups, namely Quagga stopped working after updates in Stretch.

BIRD is also more flexible and modern.

I have my OSPF BIND anycast configuration in Quagga and would like to setup the OSPF service in a way similar on BIRD.

What to do?

My /etc/quagga/ospfd.conf is:

!
! Zebra configuration saved from vty
!   2011/03/22 21:17:11
!
hostname dns
password 8 xxxxxxx
enable password 8 xxxxxxx
log stdout
service password-encryption
!
!
!
interface dummy0
 ip ospf cost 100
!
interface dummy1
 ip ospf cost 500
!
interface dummy2
 ip ospf cost 1000
!
interface dummy3
 ip ospf cost 900
!
interface eth0
 ip ospf authentication message-digest
 ip ospf message-digest-key 5 md5 MySecretPassword
 ip ospf cost 1000
!
interface eth1
 ip ospf cost 1000
!
interface lo
!
router ospf
 ospf router-id 1.1.1.1
 auto-cost reference-bandwidth 10000
 network 1.1.1.0/22 area 0.0.0.0
 network 2.2.2.2/32 area 0.0.0.0
 network 3.3.3.3/32 area 0.0.0.0
 network 4.4.4.4/32 area 0.0.0.0
 network 5.5.5.5/32 area 0.0.0.0
 area 0 filter-list prefix AREA_1_OUT out
!
ip prefix-list AREA_1_OUT seq 5 permit 2.2.2.2/32
ip prefix-list AREA_1_OUT seq 10 permit 3.3.3.3/32
ip prefix-list AREA_1_OUT seq 15 permit 4.4.4.4/32
ip prefix-list AREA_1_OUT seq 20 permit 5.5.5.5/32
ip prefix-list AREA_1_OUT seq 25 deny any
!
line vty
!

Rui F Ribeiro · Accepted Answer · 2019-05-01T08:42:39.100

After solving the problems described here OSPF md5 encryption from Quagga to BIRD and in OSPF route costs in BIRD , the rest of the migration is relatively easy.

To have an equivalent service, the steps are:

sudo dpkg --purge quagga
sudo apt-get install bird
sudo chkconfig bird6 off
sudo service bird6 stop

Then there is a need to create the setup in /etc/bird/bird.conf as:

#
router id 1.1.1.1;

# The Device protocol is not a real routing protocol. It doesn't generate any
# routes and it only serves as a module for getting information about network
# interfaces from the kernel.
protocol device {
    scan time 10;
}

protocol ospf {
        tick 2;
        rfc1583compat yes;

        area 0.0.0.0 {

            networks {
                1.1.1.0/22;
            };
            stubnet 2.2.2.2/32 {
                 cost 100;
            };
            stubnet 3.3.3.3/32 {
                 cost 500;  
            };
            stubnet 4.4.4.4/32 {
                 cost 1000;
            };
            stubnet 5.5.5.5/32 {
                 cost 900;
            };
            interface "eth0" {
                cost 1000;
                password "MySecretPassword" {
                    id 5;
                };
                authentication cryptographic; 
            };

            interface "dummy0" {
                stub;
            };
            interface "dummy1" {
                stub;
            };
            interface "dummy2" {
                stub;
            };
            interface "dummy3" {
                stub;
            };

        };
}

After modifying the configuration:

sudo service bird restart

To check for the service on the local server:

sudo birdc

and then

show status

and

show ospf

and

show ospf state

and

show ospf neighbors

P.S. I did not find a straightforward document, and did not find much about Quagga coexisting and migrating to BIRD, and decided to document it here.

I did not migrate all my Quagga servers/OSPF nodes at once, because both configurations are similar, and talk with each other (via the OSPF protocol obviously).

See also OSPF import route filter for BIRD

OSPF: Migrating Quagga to BIRD

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