BIRD: Anycast gateway support#3509
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Pull request overview
This PR adds anycast first-hop gateway (FHRP) support to the BIRD daemon by reusing FRR’s gateway data-plane scripting, and updates the documentation to reflect the new platform capability.
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- Advertise
gateway/anycastsupport in the BIRD daemon feature set. - Split the FRR gateway script into reusable data-plane + VRRP config components, and add a BIRD gateway script that reuses the data-plane component.
- Update platform/module docs to show BIRD supports the gateway module (anycast only).
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| File | Description |
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| netsim/daemons/bird.yml | Declares BIRD support for the gateway module using the anycast protocol. |
| netsim/ansible/templates/gateway/frr.j2 | Refactors FRR gateway wrapper to include the new data-plane fragment. |
| netsim/ansible/templates/gateway/frr.data-plane.j2 | New shared data-plane script fragment used by both FRR and BIRD gateway provisioning. |
| netsim/ansible/templates/gateway/bird.j2 | New BIRD gateway script reusing the FRR data-plane logic. |
| docs/platforms.md | Marks BIRD as supporting FHRP (gateway module) in the platform capability matrix. |
| docs/module/gateway.md | Adds BIRD to the gateway module support table (anycast only). |
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| sysctl -w net.ipv6.conf.all.enhanced_dad=0 | |||
| sysctl -w net.ipv6.conf.default.enhanced_dad=0 | |||
| {% for intf in interfaces if intf.gateway.protocol|default('none') == 'vrrp' %} | |||
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If this thing generates content only when VRRP is enabled, don't you think it belongs in vrrp-config.j2?
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Hey, I just copied your approach ;) Of course, we can further split the files.
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Would suggest to move vrrp bits
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Based on work by @jbemmel in #3475