Route aggregation in BIRD - how?

Ondrej Zajicek santiago at crfreenet.org
Mon Jan 23 19:00:22 CET 2012


On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 08:14:28PM +0400, Alexander V. Chernikov wrote:
> On 23.01.2012 20:01, Maciej Wierzbicki wrote:
>> Hello.
>>
>> Case study:
>> * importing full BGP table from various uplinks
>> * some routes received by BGP are being exported via OSPF to core1,
>> using filters:
>> (source = RTS_BGP && bgp_path ~ [= * ASNXYZ * =])
>>
>> Question: how to aggregate routes (whenever possible) before exporting
>> them via OSPF to core?
>
> It is not possible currently.
>
> I'm working on BGP route aggregation and I plan to get more or less  
> working code at the end of this week.

Do you plan to integrate it to the BGP protocol? I don't think it is
a good idea. It would be easy to make generic route aggregation -
'virtual' protocol similar to static, which generates aggregate routes
based on its config and received routes.

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