Call for testing: bird as VPN route reflector

Alexander V. Chernikov melifaro at yandex-team.ru
Thu Dec 1 22:58:13 CET 2011


Hello list!

There are some patches enabling bird to act as VPNv4 and (partly) as 
VPNv6 RR.

Release is based on 1.3.4 git version.

VPNv6 is supported over IPv4 BGP sessions only and does not support pure 
IPv6 nexthops.

Example RR configuration: 
http://bird.mpls.in/projects/mpls-bird/wiki/Bird_rr

Download: http://bird.mpls.in/distfiles/bird/bird-20111202.tar.gz

Do configure with --enable-mpls switch

(FreeBSD example)
./configure --prefix=/usr/local --mandir=/usr/local/man 
--infodir=/usr/local/info/ --build=amd64-portbld-freebsd8.2  --enable-mpls

FreeBSD users can edit net/bird-devel port, change its version to 
20111202 and call 'make makesum'

Please note, this is BETA quality software and testing MUST be done 
before real-world usage.

Feedback is highly appreciated.





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