[PATCH] allow setting the 'onlink' route attribute in filters

Ondrej Zajicek santiago at crfreenet.org
Tue Jan 17 18:23:24 CET 2023


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

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