BGP Link-State Address Family

[shawnolson-fp]

Description

Please add support for BGP-LS as an address family option; a transport mechanism for carrying IGP database(s) through BGP.

As we move closer towards segment routing, this will be very helpful when MPLS L3VPN over ISIS in the core needs to span multiple areas.

RFC

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7752

Versions

• OS: [Debian] [Stretch]
• Kernel: [Linux] [4.9.0-8-amd64]
• FRR: [6.0]

[odd22]

We start implementation of BGP-LS 3,5 years ago on latest Quagga version, but never finish it. All parser/serializer are done and working, but the link with OSPF and/or IS-IS was not achieved. In fact, OSPF-API could be used for that purpose but there is no equivalent for IS-IS. Thus, the code has not been publish and now completely obsolete due to the large amount of modification done in FRR.

If you are interested and could help finishing the code, I could share it with you.

In any case, we are also interested for such support within BGP.

Olivier

[shawnolson-fp]

@odd22 Yes, I'd be interested in helping out. If you can share it w/me, I'll take a look and maybe we can work something out. We'd love to have this address family in our Service Provider Network.

[donaldsharp]

Added this to our feature request page

[Julian-younger]

@odd22 Hi,Olivier Dugeon,I'm interested in BGP-LS,too. Would you share that code with me? I shall appreciate it if you will do me that favour. We'll have this feature in our network device , and we'll work for it ,maybe we can work something out,too. Thanks!

[chendan6]

@odd22 Hi, Olivier,I am also interested in BGP-LS, I would really appreciate it if you could share your code. Thank you!

[brianwaters3]

What is the current status of BGP-LS support?

[t-hirasawa1]

Hi,
We want to know current BGP-LS implementation status for FRR if there is any update.
Thanks

[odd22]

Please have a look to the dedicated project here: https://github.com/FRRouting/frr/projects/6

[ashishsaxenahsc]

@odd22 Hi Olivier,
Can you please share the current status of the bgp ls support . I tried to compile the code as provided in the link shared by you , but it is not compiling and it looks like some file are missing from the repo.
Can you please help me out in compiling the code ?
Thanks and Regards,
Ashish