BIRD patches for IP-in-IP

Ondrej Zajicek santiago at crfreenet.org
Thu Sep 29 00:04:45 CEST 2016


On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 05:29:01PM +0200, 'Gustavo Ponza' wrote:
> Hi Ondrej,
> 
> >Using BGP-based routing in NBMA tunnels is an interesting approach. We
> >definitely should support this. But i would avoid things like 'krt_tunnel'
> >attribute until we have support for lightweight tunnels using RTA_ENCAP.
> >
> >For IPIP tunnels, it seems like simplest approach is just to allow setting
> >'onlink' flag and iface from BGP import filter, like:
> >
> >onlink = true;
> >iface = "tunl0";
> >gw = bgp_nexthop;
> >
> >and some option that avoids default gateway setting by BGP protocol.
> >Does this make sense?
> 
> is it possible to extend the above feature for IPIP encapsulation
> on RIPv2 routing environment? Thanks

Yes, most of that is protocol-independent.

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