Re: Dummy Interface In OpenBGPd

2007-02-27 Thread Stuart Henderson
fwiw, one piece of fallout from listing the same address on a loopback interface as a real iface is that ntpd 'listen on *' tries to listen to the same address twice and fails, so you need to list the addresses individually in ntpd.conf. (other than that, I haven't seen any major problems, but I'd

Re: Dummy Interface In OpenBGPd

2007-02-10 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2007/02/07 13:36, Claudio Jeker wrote: > Btw. for ospfd you can use "interface lo1" to reliably redistribute the > loopback address. I have configured a router with yyy.yy.yyy.247/32 on lo1 and yyy.yy.yyy.247/28 on vlan2244. This seems attractive since BGP sessions can be bound to an address wh

Re: Dummy Interface In OpenBGPd

2007-02-08 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2007/02/08 14:10, Dan Farrell wrote: > - You likely want to use the lo0 interface for this (although I suppose > lo1 will suffice, but lo0 is the 'standard' loopback address (don't beat > me up about my use of the word 'standard')) lo1 makes redistributing into OSPF simpler, as per Claudio's ex

Re: Dummy Interface In OpenBGPd

2007-02-08 Thread Dan Farrell
t. Ducking, danno -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2007 5:54 PM To: misc@openbsd.org Subject: Re: Dummy Interface In OpenBGPd The thing is, after I creatd /etc/hostname.lo1 as stated and I tring

Re: Dummy Interface In OpenBGPd

2007-02-07 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2007/02/07 22:54, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Some hints? Should I manually add a route to it in the kernel routing table? If you're going to use static routes, you might as well use an address on an normal interface... it's only worth configuring BGP on a loopback address if you have an IGP to

Re: Dummy Interface In OpenBGPd

2007-02-07 Thread demuel
The thing is, after I creatd /etc/hostname.lo1 as stated and I tring to ping it from other devices within that network, it is not reachable. I put network 10.83.66.128/32 in my /etc/bgpd.conf but still I can only ping this interface from that host it is put in but not from the other host. Some

Re: Dummy Interface In OpenBGPd

2007-02-07 Thread Henning Brauer
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-02-07 14:34]: > What i want to accomplish and wanted to do is to be able to use such an > interface when all the NIC > on my machines are alloted for BGP. that is not any clearer. "such an interface"? get rid of that dummy interface terminology, that

Re: Dummy Interface In OpenBGPd

2007-02-07 Thread Claudio Jeker
On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 01:08:31PM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Can this looback interface be used as a sort of router-id just like in > Quagga? Do I need to add routes for this IP address reachable elsewhere > in my network? Yes the IP needs to be reachable from elsewhere in your network --

Re: Dummy Interface In OpenBGPd

2007-02-07 Thread demuel
What i want to accomplish and wanted to do is to be able to use such an interface when all the NIC on my machines are alloted for BGP. > * [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-02-07 14:08]: >> I want to experiment with creating dummy interfaces under such topology just >> like in Quagga.

Re: Dummy Interface In OpenBGPd

2007-02-07 Thread Henning Brauer
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-02-07 14:08]: > I want to experiment with creating dummy interfaces under such topology just > like in Quagga. this doesn't lead anywhere, really. I don't know what "dummy interfaces .. just like in quagga" are, and, moreover, it is completely unclea

Re: Dummy Interface In OpenBGPd

2007-02-07 Thread demuel
Can this looback interface be used as a sort of router-id just like in Quagga? Do I need to add routes for this IP address reachable elsewhere in my network? > On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 12:07:56PM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Does that categorically mean there is no way, as of the moment, in

Re: Dummy Interface In OpenBGPd

2007-02-07 Thread demuel
I have 4 machines running OpenBSD-stable and it used some AS in the 64512-65535 range. Now, two of these machines will be eventually connected to two different AS, say obsd1 to AS 64512 and obsd2 to 64513, while these four machines fall under one AS, say 64513. >From my readings in the published

Re: Dummy Interface In OpenBGPd

2007-02-07 Thread Claudio Jeker
On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 12:07:56PM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Does that categorically mean there is no way, as of the moment, in > openbgp to use a dummy interface just like in Quagga? > There are no dummy interfaces. If you like to use a loopback interface create one. # cat > /etc/hostna

Re: Dummy Interface In OpenBGPd

2007-02-07 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2007/02/07 12:07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Does that categorically mean there is no way, as of the moment, in openbgp to > use a dummy > interface just like in Quagga? there categorically *is* a way, set up /32 address on a lo interface, and use that as local-address in bgpd.conf, making sur

Re: Dummy Interface In OpenBGPd

2007-02-07 Thread Henning Brauer
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-02-07 13:11]: > Does that categorically mean there is no way, as of the moment, in openbgp to > use a dummy > interface just like in Quagga? well, you have to be more explicity. pseudo-interfaces are just interfaces. there is no visible difference fo

Re: Dummy Interface In OpenBGPd

2007-02-07 Thread Henning Brauer
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-02-07 13:14]: > Yeah a loopback just like in Quagga or in Cisco. loopback interfaces are pseudo-interfaces. and as I said, interfaces are just interfaces for bgpd. pseudo or real, there is no real difference. -- Henning Brauer, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [E

Re: Dummy Interface In OpenBGPd

2007-02-07 Thread demuel
Does that categorically mean there is no way, as of the moment, in openbgp to use a dummy interface just like in Quagga? > * [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-02-07 12:31]: >> As I read the openbgpd documentation, there is not a single point wherein in >> the examples a >> dummy >> int

Re: Dummy Interface In OpenBGPd

2007-02-07 Thread demuel
Yeah a loopback just like in Quagga or in Cisco. > On 2007/02/07 11:24, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> As I read the openbgpd documentation, there is not a single point wherein >> in the examples a dummy interface is being used. Is a dummy interface >> supported in OpenBGP? > > Do you mean 'loopback

Re: Dummy Interface In OpenBGPd

2007-02-07 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2007/02/07 11:24, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > As I read the openbgpd documentation, there is not a single point wherein > in the examples a dummy interface is being used. Is a dummy interface > supported in OpenBGP? Do you mean 'loopback interface'? Works just fine (certainly to an alias on lo0,

Re: Dummy Interface In OpenBGPd

2007-02-07 Thread Henning Brauer
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-02-07 12:31]: > As I read the openbgpd documentation, there is not a single point wherein in > the examples a dummy > interface is being used. Is a dummy interface supported in OpenBGP? -vvv :) from bgpd's perspective, an interface is an interface, m

Dummy Interface In OpenBGPd

2007-02-07 Thread demuel
Hi, As I read the openbgpd documentation, there is not a single point wherein in the examples a dummy interface is being used. Is a dummy interface supported in OpenBGP? Regards, Demuel