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Upgrade to FRR version 9.0 added new daemons which must be adjusted
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Description

https://vyos.dev/T5415 upgraded FRR to version 9.0 in VyOS 1.4-rolling.

This is causing a new daemon named mgmtd to be started who then listens at TCP2622 on ALL interfaces:

root@vyos:/home/vyos# netstat -atunp | grep -i mgmtd
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:2622            0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      907/mgmtd           
tcp6       0      0 :::2622                 :::*                    LISTEN      907/mgmtd

The above is caused by missing entries in daemons-file used by FRR:

vyos@vyos:~$ ps auxwww | grep -i mgmtd
root         867  0.0  0.0   8556  3256 ?        S<s  13:19   0:00 /usr/lib/frr/watchfrr -d -F traditional zebra mgmtd bgpd ripd ripngd ospfd ospf6d isisd babeld ldpd eigrpd staticd bfdd
frr          907  0.0  0.0  10096  6380 ?        S<s  13:19   0:00 /usr/lib/frr/mgmtd -d -F traditional

More information about mgmtd:

https://docs.frrouting.org/en/latest/mgmtd.html

Most likely following files needs to be updated (if not more):

  • /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/vyos/frr.py (example: variable _frr_daemons).
  • /usr/share/vyos/templates/frr/daemons.frr.tmpl

Current master of deamons default at FRR repo:

https://github.com/FRRouting/frr/blob/master/tools/etc/frr/daemons

Suggestion for daemons.frr.tmpl (did not account for additional settings which might need to be put into this file according to the above default from FRR repo):

zebra=yes
bgpd=yes
ospfd=yes
ospf6d=yes
ripd=yes
ripngd=yes
isisd=yes
pimd=no
ldpd=yes
nhrpd=no
eigrpd=yes
babeld=yes
sharpd=no
pbrd=no
bfdd=yes
staticd=yes
mgmtd=yes

vtysh_enable=yes
zebra_options="-s 90000000 --daemon -A 127.0.0.1
{%- if irdp is defined %} -M irdp{% endif -%}
{%- if snmp is defined and snmp.zebra is defined %} -M snmp{% endif -%}
"
bgpd_options="--daemon -A 127.0.0.1
{%- if bmp is defined %} -M bmp{% endif -%}
{%- if snmp is defined and snmp.bgpd is defined %} -M snmp{% endif -%}
"
ospfd_options="--daemon -A 127.0.0.1
{%- if snmp is defined and snmp.ospfd is defined %} -M snmp{% endif -%}
"
ospf6d_options="--daemon -A ::1
{%- if snmp is defined and snmp.ospf6d is defined %} -M snmp{% endif -%}
"
ripd_options="--daemon -A 127.0.0.1
{%- if snmp is defined and snmp.ripd is defined %} -M snmp{% endif -%}
"
ripngd_options="--daemon -A ::1"
isisd_options="--daemon -A 127.0.0.1
{%- if snmp is defined and snmp.isisd is defined %} -M snmp{% endif -%}
"
pimd_options="--daemon -A 127.0.0.1"
ldpd_options="--daemon -A 127.0.0.1
{%- if snmp is defined and snmp.ldpd is defined %} -M snmp{% endif -%}
"
nhrpd_options="--daemon -A 127.0.0.1"
eigrpd_options="--daemon -A 127.0.0.1"
babeld_options="--daemon -A 127.0.0.1"
sharpd_options="--daemon -A 127.0.0.1"
pbrd_options="--daemon -A 127.0.0.1"
bfdd_options="--daemon -A 127.0.0.1"
staticd_options="--daemon -A 127.0.0.1"
mgmtd_options="--daemon -A 127.0.0.1"

watchfrr_enable=no                   
valgrind_enable=no

Bonus: Isnt "watchfrr_enable=no" incorrect?

Details

Difficulty level
Easy (less than an hour)
Version
VyOS 1.4-rolling-202308040317
Why the issue appeared?
Other
Is it a breaking change?
Perfectly compatible
Issue type
Bug (incorrect behavior)

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Note, if mgmtd is of no use in VyOS then the preferred is to have it disabled all together (after updating daemons.tmpl in case it gets enabled in future).

Also watchfrr was disabled some time ago as FRR process handling was moved to systemd.

Closing this

c-po claimed this task.
c-po triaged this task as High priority.
c-po changed Difficulty level from Unknown (require assessment) to Easy (less than an hour).
c-po changed Why the issue appeared? from Will be filled on close to Other.
c-po changed Is it a breaking change? from Unspecified (possibly destroys the router) to Perfectly compatible.