From ece44de7829aadc4952a00de41aa5b27d914df3b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nate Sales <nate@natesales.net>
Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2020 16:43:06 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] add manual config option

---
 README.md             | 3 +++
 templates/global.tmpl | 1 +
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index c7a5c7f2..f935454d 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -74,6 +74,9 @@ There are many features of BIRD that aren't part of bcg. If you want to add a st
 #### iBGP
 Next hop self will be enabled on BGP sessions where the neighbor ASN and local ASN are the same (iBGP sessions).
 
+#### Manual configuration
+If bcg doesn't have a feature you need (and you can't use pre-import/pre-export conditions) then you can supply pure BIRD config in `/etc/bird/manual*.conf` and bcg will load the config before the peers defined in the bcg config file.
+
 #### BGP Communities
 bcg uses RFC 8092 BGP Large Communities
 
diff --git a/templates/global.tmpl b/templates/global.tmpl
index 61d48f26..6aeed1ae 100644
--- a/templates/global.tmpl
+++ b/templates/global.tmpl
@@ -265,4 +265,5 @@ function reject_bogons() {
 
 # ---- Peers ----
 
+include "manual*.conf";
 include "AS*.conf";