Re: [vpp-dev] Advertising prefixes in VPP fib via BGP

2021-09-21 Thread Pim van Pelt
Hoi, (straying off topic, but) - If I set an IP address, or MTU, or admin-state on an interface, using the VPP API or CLI, I would expect that to show up in Linux as well. If VPP does not propagate this state, I have two choices: 1) do not (ever) use VPP to manipulate these things, but purely rely

Re: [vpp-dev] Advertising prefixes in VPP fib via BGP

2021-09-20 Thread Jim Thompson via lists.fd.io
> On Sep 20, 2021, at 5:07 PM, Pim van Pelt wrote: > > Matt: this is one of those places where having, in general, a sync from VPP > -> Linux would be useful. I think this is somewhat inadvisable. To quote someone else on-list, “VPP is not your control plane”. Jim -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

Re: [vpp-dev] Advertising prefixes in VPP fib via BGP

2021-09-20 Thread Pim van Pelt
Hoi Chinmaya, I'm not quite sure I understand your question. You can advertise prefixes with BGP (FRR or otherwise). There's many ways of doing this, for example by means of a route-map that captures attributes of the route in the RIB and then deciding to advertise. I also don't quite understand w

[vpp-dev] Advertising prefixes in VPP fib via BGP

2021-09-20 Thread Chinmaya Aggarwal
Hi, I am using linux-cp and linux-nl plugins to install BGP routes in VPP and it is working fine for us. After this, we installed a sr policy and sr steering policy for an IPv4 prefix 81.81.81.0/64 and we want to advertise this prefix via BGP. Can we do it in a dynamic way using linux-cp and li