• [gentoo-user] OT: bird/frr routing

    From William Kenworthy@21:1/5 to All on Thu Oct 17 01:20:01 2024
    Hi, I have decided to give bird a go to replace frr (ospf) on my
    network.  I am frustrated with frr and the latest update is giving me
    weird problems (again).

    Is bird relatively stable (breaking updates are rare) and are there any "gotchas" in using with vlans/wifi/vpn's.  My first test install
    connected to frr first time and seems much simpler and easier to configure!

    BillK

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  • From Alarig Le Lay@21:1/5 to William Kenworthy on Thu Oct 17 14:50:01 2024
    Hi,

    On Thu 17 Oct 2024 07:15:34 GMT, William Kenworthy wrote:
    Hi, I have decided to give bird a go to replace frr (ospf) on my
    network.  I am frustrated with frr and the latest update is giving me
    weird problems (again).

    Is bird relatively stable (breaking updates are rare) and are there any "gotchas" in using with vlans/wifi/vpn's.  My first test install
    connected to frr first time and seems much simpler and easier to configure!

    BillK

    Out of curiosity, what are the issues you’re facing with frr?

    And yes, I have a big preference on bird vs. frr, particularly memory
    and perf wise.

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    Alarig

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  • From William Kenworthy@21:1/5 to Alarig Le Lay on Thu Oct 17 15:20:01 2024
    On 17/10/24 20:48, Alarig Le Lay wrote:
    Hi,

    On Thu 17 Oct 2024 07:15:34 GMT, William Kenworthy wrote:
    Hi, I have decided to give bird a go to replace frr (ospf) on my
    network.  I am frustrated with frr and the latest update is giving me
    weird problems (again).

    Is bird relatively stable (breaking updates are rare) and are there any
    "gotchas" in using with vlans/wifi/vpn's.  My first test install
    connected to frr first time and seems much simpler and easier to configure! >>
    BillK
    Out of curiosity, what are the issues you’re facing with frr?

    And yes, I have a big preference on bird vs. frr, particularly memory
    and perf wise.

    Its not pushing routes from ospf into the kernel routing table for
    version 10.? ... older version worked with same config. Weirdly it sorta
    works routing wise!  Its also not recognising some hosts running ospf
    (but others ok) creating a chain of ospf via neighbours rather than
    showing all neighbours on that segment. So when I shut down a certain
    link in the chain, I get two ospf domains on the same segment, only one
    of which is connected to most other ospf instances. I use homeassistant
    and esphome on esp8266 controlled relays for the power a number of hosts
    - works well until the relays cant contact homeassistant and due to a
    long standing bug they reboot (cycling the relays) after 15m of not
    contacting homeassistant.  You can imagine the chaos that's caused :(

    Its quite likely that its a misconfiguration caused by me - but I am
    finding bird much nicer to use with no issues so far so I am giving frr
    the flick!

    BillK

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