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[Kaliraj Vairavakkalai <>]

> and fun fact, imho i'll be able to do the same for the vpls and the evpn afis :))))

 

Super! that’s rocking!. :-D

 

From: mc36 <>
Date: Friday, March 3, 2023 at 3:27 AM
To: Kaliraj Vairavakkalai <>, Natrajan Venkataraman <>, <>, Krzysztof Szarkowicz <>, Anton Elita <>
Cc: Reshma Das <>
Subject: Re: [rare-dev] BGP CT interop - Colorful Resolution

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and fun fact, imho i'll be able to do the same for the vpls and the evpn afis :))))

On 3/3/23 12:01, mc36 wrote:
> hi, guys,
>
> imho from now, freerouter have cheat-less colorful resolution for vpnv4/vpnv6 afis:
>
> https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://github.com/rare-freertr/freeRtr/commit/335d83792d7123ca164691f124ceab71a98e21b9__;!!NEt6yMaO-gk!GuN8TZnvtztbGvJwZnAev3v3po9DXPCIDE2nzsj-SiENnhVEsfTy1z9c_B0kc1BmhuEK2Tgw$
>
> unfortunately this contains a smaller refactoring also, i just forgot to commit that beforehand... :)
>
>
> the code is still not covered by a test case, that will be the next,
>
> then i'll get back to you with a new topology for the plugfest...
>
> happy weekend,
> thanks,
> cs
>
> sid#show config-differences
> router bgp4 65535 vrf v1
>    afi-vrf niif set-vrf v2 ipv4
>    exit
>
> sid#clear ipv4 bgp 65535 all in vpnuni
> sid#show ipv4 route niif | first 10
> typ   prefix                           metric         iface           hop                   time
> B       0.0.0.0/0                     200/0           null@v2:4   10.10.10.25   00:00:02
> B       4.0.0.0/9                     200/0           null@v2:4   10.10.10.25   00:00:02
> B       4.23.88.0/24               200/0           null@v2:4   10.10.10.25   00:00:02
> B       4.23.89.0/24               200/0           null@v2:4   10.10.10.25   00:00:02
> B       4.23.92.0/23               200/0           null@v2:4   10.10.10.25   00:00:02
> B       4.23.94.0/23               200/0           null@v2:4   10.10.10.25   00:00:02
> B       4.35.69.0/24               200/0           null@v2:4   10.10.10.25   00:00:02
> B       4.38.0.0/21                 200/0           null@v2:4   10.10.10.25   00:00:02
> B       4.38.8.0/21                 200/0           null@v2:4   10.10.10.25   00:00:02
>
> sid#configure revert
>           1: router bgp4 65535 vrf v1
>           2:   no afi-vrf niif set-vrf v2 ipv4
>           3:   exit
>
> errors=0
>
> router bgp4 65535 vrf v1
>    afi-vrf niif set-vrf v2 ipv4
>    exit
>
> sid#clear ipv4 bgp 65535 all in vpnuni
> sid#show ipv4 route niif | first 10
> typ   prefix                           metric           iface           hop                   time
> B       0.0.0.0/0                     200/0             null@v1:4   10.10.10.25   00:00:02
> B       4.0.0.0/9                     200/0             null@v1:4   10.10.10.25   00:00:02
> B       4.23.88.0/24               200/0             null@v1:4   10.10.10.25   00:00:02
> B       4.23.89.0/24               200/0             null@v1:4   10.10.10.25   00:00:02
> B       4.23.92.0/23               200/0             null@v1:4   10.10.10.25   00:00:02
> B       4.23.94.0/23               200/0             null@v1:4   10.10.10.25   00:00:02
> B       4.35.69.0/24               200/0             null@v1:4   10.10.10.25   00:00:02
> B       4.38.0.0/21                 200/0             null@v1:4   10.10.10.25   00:00:02
> B       4.38.8.0/21                 200/0             null@v1:4   10.10.10.25   00:00:02
>
> sid#
>
>
>
> On 2/28/23 23:21, mc36 wrote:
>> hi,
>>
>> On 2/28/23 22:39, Kaliraj Vairavakkalai wrote:
>>> That     s cool. So now we have two demo setups:
>>>
>>> 1/ Csaba     s setup with FreeRTR as Ingress-PE doing colorful resolution.
>>>
>>> 2/ Natz setup with FreeRTR as ASBR doing colorful resolution.
>>>
>>> We could have a combo of the two setups, to show FreeRTR in both ASBR and ingress-PE roles.     ;)
>>>
>>
>> well, for a really really proper color resolution imho i need to introduce the "afi-vrf cust-blue resolve-in core-blue" knob...
>> it'll simply set the route's underlaying table like when we need to send out a vrf packet in mpls in the core vrf, but here,
>> it'll a per vrf override that i'll set that paramter to a user defined table... no fallback yet, just a static mechanism...
>> that'll be the first tomorrow what i'll start playing with... :)
>>
>>
>>> Just some comments -
>>>
>>> It     s worth noting that:
>>>
>>>          route-policy ibgp-in
>>>
>>>              sequence 10 if extcomm 2562:0:100
>>>
>>>              sequence 20         set vrf v2 ipv4
>>>
>>>              sequence 30         pass
>>>
>>>              sequence 40 enif
>>>
>>>              sequence 50 if extcomm 2562:0:200
>>>
>>>              sequence 60         set vrf v3 ipv4
>>>
>>>              sequence 70         pass
>>>
>>>              sequence 80 enif
>>>
>>>              sequence 90 drop
>>>
>>>              exit
>>>
>>> This policy config kind of implements the       resolution-scheme     . :)
>>>
>>
>> yeahh, i knew that matching against the rd is not the color but the path... :)
>>
>>
>>
>>> It works with LDP tunnels in VRFs v2, v3. BGP-CT routes are able to resolve over LDP routes
>>>
>>> (in main VRF v1 or color VRFs v2,v3), and create SWAP routes properly.
>>>
>>> We could not make BGP routes resolve over RSVP-TE Tunnel routes in any VRF. That     s why we used
>>>
>>> LDP-tunnels in previous IETF demo as-well. We may be missing something there.
>>
>> so that was just another dirty hack that i put the rsvp to a dummy vrf to have a color on it.... :)
>>
>>
>>>
>>> And, the code-change in rtrBgpNeigh.java was needed to make the following config work:
>>>
>>
>> [..]
>>
>> let's discuss this on my previous mail, i did a lot of changes to that part as i realized
>> that you were right and a lot were missing on that part of the code.... :)
>> thanks again for spotting it... :)
>>
>> thanks,
>> cs

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