BIRD patches for IP-in-IP

'Gustavo Ponza' g.ponza at tin.it
Wed Sep 28 17:29:01 CEST 2016


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

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