Dear Christoffer, Thank you for your reply! I don't have access to my provider's BGP configuration I'm afraid. However I am pasting my end of the setup below. It might be relevant to note that the BGP instance is configure inside a view, as I do not need anything to be installed in the main routing table. I am using tcpdump to listen on the network interface for any traffic, and FRR doesn't appear to be initiating any connections to my upstream. My BGP config: router bgp 65001 view ISP bgp router-id 192.168.255.227 bgp log-neighbor-changes neighbor 192.168.255.225 remote-as 65000 neighbor 192.168.255.225 description default neighbor 192.168.255.225 update-source 192.168.255.227 neighbor 192.168.255.225 timers 10 30 neighbor 192.168.200.29 remote-as 65000 neighbor 192.168.200.29 description full-table neighbor 192.168.200.29 ebgp-multihop 255 neighbor 192.168.200.29 update-source 192.168.255.227 ! address-family ipv4 unicast network 10.10.10.0/24 neighbor 192.168.255.225 soft-reconfiguration inbound neighbor 192.168.255.225 weight 1000 neighbor 192.168.255.225 prefix-list AS65001-export out neighbor 192.168.200.29 soft-reconfiguration inbound neighbor 192.168.200.29 weight 1000 neighbor 192.168.200.29 prefix-list noexport out exit-address-family ! Kind regards, Chris On 18.04.2019 12:58, Hansen, Christoffer wrote:
On 18/04/2019 10:21, Chris G wrote:
I have an issue where my BGP neighbor is configured in passive mode, however my BGP (FRR 7.0) instance does not attempt to connect to this neighbor.
Is this expected behavior? Is there any way I can force my BGP instance to initiate a connection to the passive BGP neighbor ? Could you provide the relevant neighbor configuration from both sides of you BGP peering in this context?