BIRD 2.0.5 and 1.6.7

[Ondrej Zajicek]

On Mon, Aug 05, 2019 at 07:07:37PM +0200, Vincent Bernat wrote:
>  ❦  5 août 2019 18:28 +02, Ondrej Zajicek <santiago at crfreenet.org>:
> 
> >> You mean I can do:
> >> 
> >> protocol bgp XXX {
> >>  neighbor;
> >>  interface eth0;
> >>  /* ... */
> >> }
> >> 
> >> ?
> >
> > No, you need to specify neighbor link-local address
> > (i probably misunderstood your point):
> >
> > protocol bgp XXX {
> >   neighbor fe80::1 external;
> >   interface eth0;
> > }
> 
> Oh, OK, not as convenient as specifying an interface. I wonder how FRR
> is getting the remote IP. Maybe it's automatically in the neighbor table
> due to neighbor advertisements?

For BGP autodiscovery, there are currently two drafts:

draft-acee-idr-lldp-peer-discovery-05
draft-xu-idr-neighbor-autodiscovery-10

One could also do some hacks like listening for router advertisements.

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