On Tue, Jan 17, 2023 at 04:51:44PM +0100, Radu CARPA wrote: > Hi bird users, > > I recently came across the following thread [1] when trying to build an > IP-in-IP overlay network with bird. Unfortunately, those patches where never > merged upstream. Calico still uses a very old fork of bird with those > patches applied [2]. > > I decided to try the path that Ondrej proposed in the thread from 2016. I > made the small change from the attached patch and it worked wonderfully for > building a dynamically routed IP-in-IP overlay network. > > Do you think it will take a lot of work to pass, from this proof of concept, > to a patch which could be accepted into bird? Is setting "onlink" this way a > good idea? I'd be happy to work on improving the patch.
Hi Thanks for bringing up this issue, i completely forgot about it. Everythink looks OK, i just updated documentation and merged: https://gitlab.nic.cz/labs/bird/-/commit/7144c9ca46f092da33a4e051bbce8f973a3bd8c4 -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Ondrej 'Santiago' Zajicek (email: santi...@crfreenet.org) OpenPGP encrypted e-mails preferred (KeyID 0x11DEADC3, wwwkeys.pgp.net) "To err is human -- to blame it on a computer is even more so."
