[Babel-users] Babeld Team ID ( AS number like )

[Michael Richardson]

>>>>> "Gioacchino" == Gioacchino Mazzurco <gio at eigenlab.org> writes:
    Gioacchino> We are experimenting to use babeld as routing protocol
    Gioacchino> for the VPN to join the community networks in italy

    Gioacchino> It seems works very fine but we encountered a problem in
    Gioacchino> the interoperability with other routing protocols like
    Gioacchino> olsrd

    Gioacchino> Clauz from ninux developed an olsr plugin that
    Gioacchino> automatically injects route with a specified proto ( 42
    Gioacchino> in our case as babeld use it as default ) inside olsrd
    Gioacchino> as HNA

    Gioacchino> This work fine if there is only a gateway that make the
    Gioacchino> communication between olsrd and babeld network

    Gioacchino> but if we add other gateways they will learn the subnet
    Gioacchino> that babeld learned from first olsrd as HNA and this is
    Gioacchino> distruptive for the olsrd network

You may want to study how EGPs (BGP4) and IGPs (OSPF, ISIS) are usually
configured by ISPs.  Generally speaking, you need most of the features
of BGP4 to filter out these things.

    Gioacchino> So we thinked that it would be very useful if Babeld
    Gioacchino> would suppert a "team id" similar to AS number so we can
    Gioacchino> just puts a line like

    Gioacchino> in team_id roman_routers_team_id deny

Yes, so why not figure out if you can just use BGP4 to interconnect?

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