EVPN IRB - RFC 9135 support
Dear BIRD community, I plan to use the BIRD EVPN beta implementation (https://gitlab.nic.cz/labs/bird/-/tree/evpn?ref_type=heads) for a private Lab. I use EVPN in my employer's data center (based on FRR), so I am already quite familiar with EVPN. If I don't miss anything, the current EVPN implementation does't support EVPN IRB as described in RFC 9135. Since I only want to use BIRD EVPN in a lab, this is not a big problem for me. Of course I could use FRR, which supports IRB, but since I use BIRD everywhere, it would be nice if I could also use it in the EVPN lab. So my question is: Are there any plans to implement RFC 9135 in the foreseable future? I know, this isn't a 5 minute task and fully understand if it's not planned due to low priority. Maybe I can use the new L3VPN feature as an alternative then. Has anyone tried it yet? Otherwise, I'll have a look at it, as soon as I find some time. Best regards, Erik
Hello Erik, On Fri, Jul 12, 2024 at 01:30:06PM +0200, Erik Stomp via Bird-users wrote:
If I don't miss anything, the current EVPN implementation does't support EVPN IRB as described in RFC 9135. Since I only want to use BIRD EVPN in a lab, this is not a big problem for me. Of course I could use FRR, which supports IRB, but since I use BIRD everywhere, it would be nice if I could also use it in the EVPN lab.
Honestly, I'm now unaware of what is exactly supported as it's still in development but Santiago should know, cc-ing him.
So my question is: Are there any plans to implement RFC 9135 in the foreseable future? I know, this isn't a 5 minute task and fully understand if it's not planned due to low priority.
Basically the EVPN implementation depends on companies requesting this feature while having BIRD Support. This way, if you were into persuading your employer to migrate from FRR to BIRD … … contact me off-list with more details and a quote for BIRD Support. Have a nice weekend! Maria -- Maria Matejka (she/her) | BIRD Team Leader | CZ.NIC, z.s.p.o.
Hi Maria,
Honestly, I'm now unaware of what is exactly supported as it's still in development but Santiago should know, cc-ing him. Do you possibly cc-d the wrong person? I'm cc-ing Ondrej, as I think he is the right Santiago? :-)
Basically the EVPN implementation depends on companies requesting this feature while having BIRD Support. This way, if you were into persuading your employer to migrate from FRR to BIRD …
… contact me off-list with more details and a quote for BIRD Support. I would absolutely support that! But since we use FRR as a built-in part of SONiC / Dell FabricOS, unfortunately this is not really our choice as long as we use these switch operating systems.
Have a nice weekend! Thank you very much! Best wishes for a nice weekend from Germany! Erik
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On Fri, Jul 12, 2024 at 03:01:53PM +0200, Erik Stomp wrote:
Hi Maria,
Honestly, I'm now unaware of what is exactly supported as it's still in development but Santiago should know, cc-ing him. Do you possibly cc-d the wrong person? I'm cc-ing Ondrej, as I think he is the right Santiago? :-)
Hi This is me.
If I don't miss anything, the current EVPN implementation does't support EVPN IRB as described in RFC 9135.
So my question is: Are there any plans to implement RFC 9135 in the foreseable future? I know, this isn't a 5 minute task and fully understand if it's not planned due to low priority.
This is not in our current plans for EVPN. I did not evaluate this RFC as it was not necessary for the L2-only use cases that we considered. -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Ondrej 'Santiago' Zajicek (email: santiago@crfreenet.org) "To err is human -- to blame it on a computer is even more so."
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