Doing something wrong with VRF's

Ondrej Zajicek santiago at crfreenet.org
Thu Sep 28 22:09:09 CEST 2023


On Thu, Sep 28, 2023 at 07:07:03PM +0200, Daniel Gröber wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 28, 2023 at 04:03:33PM +0000, Nigel Kukard via Bird-users wrote:
> > Well .. I feel embarrassed now. The issue was a missing "kernel table xxxx;"
> > in the kernel protocol.

Hi

Well, i feel embarrassed that BIRD requires you to specify that. It would
make more sense if the kernel protocol used the proper value from VRF
automatically.


> Don't feel bad. I was going to look into using VRFs with bird and now
> there's a nice worked example ready to play with at in my inbox :)

There is also an example from our tests:

https://gitlab.nic.cz/labs/bird-tools/-/blob/master/netlab/cf-ospf-vrf/README.md
https://gitlab.nic.cz/labs/bird-tools/-/blob/master/netlab/cf-ospf-vrf/bird_m1.conf

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