Kernel protocol

Neil Jerram neil at tigera.io
Fri Mar 20 10:53:59 CET 2020


For example, a route reflector's job is to reflect routes between its
client peers.  Often a route reflector is not on the data path itself, and
so does not need to program those routes into its own box's kernel.

On Fri, Mar 20, 2020 at 9:50 AM Alexander Zubkov <green at qrator.net> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> It depends on what you are trying to achieve. Of course bird can
> function without an instance of the kernel protocol. But in that case
> it can not push any routes into the routing table of your os. If you
> need those routes only to spread them for some other reasons then it
> is probable that you do not need to use the kernel protocol.
>
> On Fri, Mar 20, 2020 at 9:07 AM Irene Lalioti <irene.lalioti at restena.lu>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hello guys!
> >
> > I would like to ask you what would you think the better practice would
> > be: Can we remove totally the kernel protocol?
> >
> > I thought no but we tested it and it works. Now we have on our linuxbox
> > set the static routes outside bird daemon, where we specify that the
> > caches we have are behind the border routers.
> >
> > Would it be safe to totally remove this from the system configs and only
> > use the Direct protocol as we said yesterday, and rely on the direct
> > protocol that it learns the connected network and the multihop of the
> > caches which reside behind the border routers?
> >
> > Thanks a lot!!
> >
> > Irene
> >
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> > Irene Lalioti
> > Network Engineer
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> >
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> >
>
>
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