❦ 5 août 2019 17:24 +02, Ondrej Zajicek <santi...@crfreenet.org>:
>> > o BGP: Dynamic BGP
>> > o BGP: Promiscuous ASN mode
>>
>> That's great! Is there a roadmap for additional features around that?
>
> In future, I would like to implement automatic BGP neighbor discovery,
> like draft-xu-idr-neighbor-autodiscovery-10.
>
>> Notably:
>>
>> - establish a BGP session using an interface name and the associated
>> link-local IPv6 address,
>
> This is already supported since long time.
You mean I can do:
protocol bgp XXX {
neighbor;
interface eth0;
/* ... */
}
?
>> - implement RFC5549 (IPv4 NLRI with an IPv6 next-hop)
>
> This is supported since 2.0.0 in BGP, but there is still no support
> in Linux kernel (AFAIK) and in Kernel protocol.
Cumulus chose to implement it without support in the kernel by using
link-local IPv4 addresses and static ARP entries. I don't know how
standard and interoperable this is.
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