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Subject: Re: constant not available everywhere and passing variables from protocols
From: Jan Maria Matejka <jan.matejka () nic ! cz>
Date: 2018-03-21 11:53:56
Message-ID: b510bc76-ae7e-0f59-0f1f-30f0daaee813 () nic ! cz
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> Are there considerations in future to pass bgp_neighbour object to
> filter, to discriminate on neighbor address, ifname, asn, etc? JunOS
> allows this. This would allow me to keep single 'define backup_int =
> "XYZ". On ingress I'd match against protocol, on egress I'd match
> against bgp_neighbour.ifname. So only thing I'd define for
> backup/primary selection is single const, which could be included in a
> single line config file.
>
> Something like this:
>
>
> filter bgp_primary_out {
> if ifname = "lo" then {
> if bgp_neighbor.ifname = backup_int then bgp_path.prepend(local_as);
> accept;
> }
> reject;
> }
>
> filter bgp_primary_in {
> if proto = backup_int then bgp_local_pref = 50;
> if net = default_candidate_net then accept;
> reject;
> }
Probably yes (or something like that) . See this thread.
http://bird.network.cz/pipermail/bird-users/2018-January/011881.html
>> Anyway, it should be possible to 'define default_candidate_ip = default_candidate_net.ip;'
>> and then use the constant as IP.
>
> This works. Curiously won't work if the next-hop is
> default_candidate_net.ip; Actually have to assign own constant to it.
Yes, you have to assign an own constant for it due to current
configuration syntax restrictions. It may change in future.
M.
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