<div dir="ltr">We did similar at a previous gig, though the switches did not support BGP unnumbered so there was an initial DHCP bootstrap to hit a couple of microservices to retrieve identity info (upsert local server's ASN; retrieve switch peer ASNs), but then turned up peering and off you go.<div><br></div><div>But I digress:<br>It would be fantastic if BIRD could support interface-specified unnumbered BGP over IPv6 LL with an RA bootstrap and 5549-based 4-over-6.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Jul 14, 2022 at 2:42 PM Douglas Fischer <<a href="mailto:fischerdouglas@gmail.com">fischerdouglas@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">This thread reminded me of something I saw these days about using BGP unnumbered in Hypervisors for EVPN/VXLAN.<br><br>I confess that I was completely stunned to see how beautiful it was!<br><br>- The 4 ports of each Server became a CLOS L3 topology.<br>- The complexities of Multichassis-LAG no longer exist.<br>- The establishment of neighborhoods was almost automatic.<br>- And the ToR switches became only simple L3 routers, without even knowing of the existence of Overlay. Which made them much cheaper and simpler to operate.<br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Em qui., 14 de jul. de 2022 às 12:40, Marco d'Itri <<a href="mailto:md@linux.it" target="_blank">md@linux.it</a>> escreveu:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On Jul 14, Ondrej Zajicek <<a href="mailto:santiago@crfreenet.org" target="_blank">santiago@crfreenet.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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> > RFC 8950 is what has been implemented in Cumulus.<br>
> Not sure how that is relevant, RFC 8950 is just IPv6 next hop for IPv4<br>
> routes, it does not handle BGP neighbor discovery.<br>
Discovery is just looking at Router Advertisements for the link, then <br>
you need RFC 8950.<br>
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<a href="https://www.theasciiconstruct.com/post/cumulus-basics-part-v-bgp-unnumbered/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.theasciiconstruct.com/post/cumulus-basics-part-v-bgp-unnumbered/</a><br>
<a href="https://www.theasciiconstruct.com/post/junos-bgp-and-bgp-unnumbered/#bgp-unnumbered-bgp-auto-discovered-neighbors" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.theasciiconstruct.com/post/junos-bgp-and-bgp-unnumbered/#bgp-unnumbered-bgp-auto-discovered-neighbors</a><br>
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ciao,<br>
Marco<br>
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