Hello! On Mon, Oct 28, 2024 at 10:49:32AM +0530, Ramanathan Selvamani wrote:
> I would like to know about the below two things in BIRD support > > (1) Do you have any plan to support BGP EVPN Route-Type 5 (IP Prefix Route) > as defined in RFC 9136 in the BIRD EVPN branch. Not in the first version to be released, yet if there is enough demand, why not. What is your usecase, please? > (2) Do you have any plan to support two level recursive lookup to resolve > nexthop for BGP routes. > I mean the below comment in "rt_update_hostentry" function > /* Recursive route should not depend on another recursive route */ This has quite some consequences we are avoiding by enforcing the one-level rule, thus if there is demand, we may add it in some higher version of BIRD 3 probably. The major problem is thorough testing to identify the corner cases where the multi-level resolution may start to do weird things after specifically timed colliding updates. Have a nice day! Maria -- Maria Matejka (she/her) | BIRD Team Leader | CZ.NIC, z.s.p.o.
