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[Frédéric LOUI <>]

Hi RARE/freeRtr users !

We did a bit of hacking during this week-end and I’d like to share with you a _mockup_ of dynamic Intra/Inter domain topology routing here:

http://62.40.109.31/next-mockup/

Nothing special here except:

1- Topology is dynamically acquired via BGP-LS from RARE/freeRtr node.

2- This BGP-LS feed is translated to JSON model thanks to exaBGP NLRI decoding feature

3- This model is then use to feed NeXt-UI visualisation library (not supported anymore, but we can somehow handle best effort for our own needs)

4- I’m mentioning intra/inter because one domain can have a BGP-LS session with a controller external to the domain.

    This is particularly interesting for example in France where RENATER is connected to ~ 40 regional networks.

This is just a mockup where all of the steps are done manually. 

But this should be soon automated and it should land here in the long run: (Apology for the self publicity)

https://github.com/frederic-loui/peering-policy-manager

But basically topology will be acquired every minute for example() and made available from a REST flask server that would be able to server Next-UI based application.

Topology will be check from a baseline/reference and diff should be explicitly rendered.

But this is only the beginning, this app can be a home for BIER / RSVP TE / SR and POLKA as it is showed independently from Cisco Dev net:

https://github.com/NeXt-UI/next-tutorials/blob/master/tutorials/tutorial-000.md

Except that RARE/freeRtr will be here along side IOXR.

So please stay tuned !

All the best,

Frederic

PS1: If for any reason you want to join the effort feel free to ping us and we would love to have your feedback and potential contribution

PS2: Special KUDOS to Thomas MANGIN exaBGP maintainer and mc36 freeRtr maintainer for their BGP-LS tweaks !