Re: Babel and Unnumbered interfaces

2024-03-30 Thread Pim van Pelt via Bird-users
Hoi, On 3/30/24 19:24, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: Yes, it's legal, but discouraged. Please see RFC 9229 Section 2.1: Thanks Juliusz, for confirming and for making the allowance in the RFC in the first place. Attached is a patch that optionally allows extended next hop to be set for IPv4

Re: Babel and Unnumbered interfaces

2024-03-30 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek
> I don't think it's a violation of the Babel protocol to use IPv6 next hops > when > an IPv4 address is present. Yes, it's legal, but discouraged. Please see RFC 9229 Section 2.1: If the outgoing interface has been assigned an IPv4 address, then, in the interest of maximising

Babel and Unnumbered interfaces

2024-03-30 Thread Pim van Pelt via Bird-users
Hoi folks, By means of context, I am working on allowing VPP and Bird2/Babel to program the routing table with IPv6 nexthops for IPv4 destinations. I finished a few small code changes in VPP to allow transit-net-less transport of IPv4 and IPv6 in VPP and wrote about it on