evpn rebase to HEAD

[William]

On 14/02/2026 10:49 pm, Pim van Pelt via Bird-users wrote:
> Hoi folks,
>
> I've started to toy with VPP and eVPN/VxLAN, and took a look at the 
> evpn branch from a few years ago.
> For my network, I'll need the OSPFv3 'unnumbered' features we built, 
> so I thought I'd ask - would it be possible to rebase the evpn branch ?
> I've taken a stab at it (see attached patch) by replaying the 9 
> commits on top if HEAD (f1a7229d-evpn.diff).
>
I had been tinkering with the same, Ondrej said to use the oz-evpn 
branch vs the evpn branch.  I was able to get that going with a couple 
of extra bridge(8) commands (see the "EPVN MPLS label parsing error" 
thread).
> I have a few further changes, notably a new 'vpp protocol' to handle 
> communication with the VPP dataplane for eVPN/VxLAN (and possibly 
> later, GENEVE and MPLS).
> Before I get too far down the rabbit hole though, I'm also wondering: 
> is releasing eVPN in the cards?
>
The oz-evpn thread talks directly with the linux bridge subsystem to 
handle the VxLAN interface/VNI matching, so don't know if that will suit 
what you want to do, but I'm guessing a tweak or 5 would work.
> groet,
> Pim
>

Regards,
William

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