[gentoo-user] OT: bird/frr routing

[gentoo-user] OT: bird/frr routing

[William Kenworthy]

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

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: bird/frr routing

[Alarig Le Lay]

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.

-- 
Alarig

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: bird/frr routing

[William Kenworthy]

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