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Rayhaan JaufeerallyandClaude Fable 5.1 175a13d506 Hygiene: scripts, CI, docs and manifests
- scripts/in-namespace.sh set CARGO_TARGET_DIR to the empty string when
  it was unset, which cargo refuses, and dropped RUSTFLAGS, so the run
  in the namespace rebuilt what kernel-tests.sh had just built. Each is
  passed on only where set.
- The README's list of unsupported features still had route reflection
  and graceful restart, both of which exist; the command-line reference
  lacked SIGUSR1 and exit status 75; the HTTP API reference did not say
  what errors look like.
- The event stream said "missed 0 events" for the best-routes stream,
  which does not count what it missed; it leaves the count out now.
- CI lints bgp-bench with its count-memory feature, which nothing built.
- bgp-bench had two unused dev-dependencies; bgp-integration-tests had
  three dependencies that only its tests and examples use.
- install.sh updates apt before installing; two-routers.sh loses an
  unused variable; small things in the web crate.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-06 11:15:58 +02:00
Rayhaan JaufeerallyandClaude Fable 5.1 fd2248feb5 Peer at link-local addresses: fe80::1%eth0
A peer's endpoint may be a link-local IPv6 address with the interface it
is on. Such a peer is the address and the interface together, wherever
peers are told apart: admission, collisions, hold-downs, the refusal log,
the status page. The interface is looked up by name each time it is
needed, so one that appears later or is made anew is found.

Our routes go out with our link-local address in both places of
MP_REACH_NLRI's next hop, as FRR sends its own. A peer's link-local next
hop is taken alone, twice, or after "::" (BIRD), and resolved in the
kernel on the interface of the session rather than by looking fe80::/64
up, which every interface has.

The lab has a new phase, linklocal: sessions with FRR (by interface, with
radvd beside the daemon) and BIRD over a LAN with link-local addresses
only, both families, pings across, the interface down and up.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-02 18:24:13 +02:00
Rayhaan JaufeerallyandClaude Fable 5.1 321af51e4b Add an interoperability lab with FRR, BIRD and Routinator
scripts/interop/lab.sh runs the daemon against FRR, BIRD and Routinator,
each in a network namespace on one exchange LAN, and checks what every
side ends up with: sessions and routes over IPv4 and IPv6 with their
attributes, four-octet AS numbers, ADD-PATH, RFC 9234 roles and Only to
Customer, RTR version 2 and invalid routes, route refresh, session resets,
killed peers, a cut wire, the daemon stopped and killed, a table of a
million routes and a restart under it, role mismatch and the prefix limit.
All of it passes against FRR 10.5.1, BIRD 2.18 and Routinator 0.15.2.

scripts/interop/real-rpki.sh checks the RTR client against a Routinator
with the real RPKI: 713,258 IPv4 and 187,479 IPv6 VRPs and 3,379 ASPAs,
the same numbers on both sides.

What the lab found, fixed here:

- A daemon restarted with its routes in the kernel removed them all at
  once, its table being empty until the peers had sent theirs again, and
  then put them back: no forwarding meanwhile. Routes of an earlier run
  are now kept for `stale_seconds` (120 by default) and only those nobody
  announced again are removed. A restart under a million routes takes
  1.1 s to be in step, with nothing removed.
- FRR ends a session it loses to a collision with a state machine error
  without a subcode, which was shown as "error code 5 subcode 0".

CI gets a job that runs the lab.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-02 17:44:49 +02:00