BIRD patches for IP-in-IP

'Gustavo Ponza' g.ponza at tin.it
Thu Sep 29 08:29:32 CEST 2016


On 09/29/2016 12:04 AM, Ondrej Zajicek wrote:
> 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.
>

Very thanks!

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