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FRR 7.2 Deb Packages are Now Available
by Jafar Al-Gharaibeh 21 Nov '19

21 Nov '19

Dear FRR users, FRR 7.2 stable release deb packages for various platforms are are now available on https://deb.frrouting.org/ Please update and let us know if you have any issues. Thanks, Jafar

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7.2 Release
by Donald Sharp 15 Oct '19

15 Oct '19

I'd like to thank everyone who's helped with the 7.2 release. This is one of our largest releases yet! We are in the process of building release images. ------- 1016 commits, with 50 individual authors. ALL Daemons -N <namespace> to allow for config file locating when running FRR inside of a namespace Impoved Testing across all daemons BFD VRF Support Conversion to Northbound interface BGP Aggregate-address add route-map support BMP Support Improved JSON output for many commands `show bgp afi safi summary failed` command `clear bop *` clears all peers Show FQDN for `show bgp ipv4 uni` commands Display BestPath selection reason as part of show commands EIGRP Infrastructure changes to allow VRF’s SIGHUP signals the config reload Conversion to Northbound interface ISIS BFD Support Support for circuits with MTU > 8192 PBRD fwmark support as part of match criteria autocompletion of PBRMAPS Improved Nexthop Support PIMD PIM-BSM receive support Improved debugging support Store ECMP paths that are not currently legal for use Disallow igmp query from a non-connected source Many new cli improvements and changes VRRPD Add Support for RFC 3768 and RFC 5798 Route-Maps Add sequence numbers to access-lists Add `match ip next-hop type blackhole` Improved ability to notice dependency changes SHARPD `sharp watch [import|nexthop]` you can now specify a prefix instead of a ssuming a /32 STATICD Significantly Improved NHT ZEBRA Many dataplane improvements for routes, neighbor table and EVPN NHT cli can now be specified per VRF and improved ability to control NHT data being shown Removed duplicate processing of routes Improved debugablility RMAC and VxLan support for the FPM LIB RCU support Nexthop Group Improvements `log-filter WORD` added Building openssl support libcap should be used as part of build or significant slowdowns will be experienced Lua builds have been fixed Improved Cross building Snapcraft Add Fabricd Add Libyang Update rtrlib and rpki Authors: Ameya Dharkar Anuradha Karuppiah Ashish Pant Chiu Bi-Ruei Binu Abraham Biswajit Sadhu btarno Chirag Shah Christian Franke David Lamparter Dinesh Dutt Don Slice Donald Sharp Donatas Abraitis Dmitrii Turlupov Emanuele Di Pascale Faicker Mo Igor Ryzhov Jafar Al-Gharaibeh Juergen Werner Kishore Aramalla Lakshman Krishnamoorthy Lou Berger Marcel Röthke Marcin Matląg Mark Stapp Martin Winter Matthew Smith Michal Ruprich Naveen Thanikachalam Nikos Triantafillis Nitin Soni Pawel Dembicki Philippe Guibert Quentin Young Quentin Young Rafael Zalamena Renato Westphal Rajesh Girada Rob Gil Saravanan K Sarita Patra Satheesh Kumar K Soman K S

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7.1 Release
by Quentin Young 31 Jul '19

31 Jul '19

Hi all, We are pleased to announce the 7.1 release of FRRouting! [https://github.com/FRRouting/frr/releases] As a reminder, Debian/Ubuntu packages are available here: [https://deb.frrouting.org/] Note: this version is numbered "7.1” primarily due to feedback from users about the major version number increasing too rapidly. It has the same amount of ongoing development as the usual FRR release cycle. User-visible changes since the 7.0 release: General: - There is a new, work-in-progress gRPC northbound configuration interface plugin. zebra: - The "table NNN" command was removed since it has been broken for a long time. - The dataplane interface modularization and multithreading work is progressing steadily. - IPv6 Router Advertisements sent by zebra can now have RFC 8106 DNS options added to them. bgpd: - EVPN can now be configured in non-default VRFs. - RFC 8212 — a default "deny" policy for eBGP sessions — can now be selected. Aside from these, a huge amount of fixes and ongoing development is happening, as usual. Thank you to all contributors! Finally, for those inquiring about our release cycle, it is documented here: [http://docs.frrouting.org/projects/dev-guide/en/latest/workflow.html#develo…] We hope to roll our next release in the October timeframe. Cheers, - Quentin

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PIM-BSM implementation in FRR
by Donald Sharp 03 Jun '19

03 Jun '19

All - Recently an implementatation of PIM-BSM was pushed into the master branch of FRR. This first release of this feature is slightly limited in it's scope, in that PIM routers can listen and respond to BSM PIM messages but cannot self-elect to make themselves an RP. By default this functionality is turned on. To turn it off issue a `no ip pim bsm` command from the cli. Further documentation can be found at http://docs.frrouting.org/en/latest/pim.html I'd like to thank Saravanan, Sarita and Rajesh for their work on getting this in. thanks! donald

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Announcing support for VRRP
by Quentin Young 20 May '19

20 May '19

Greetings operators, A few days ago, support for VRRP (Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol) was merged into master. VRRP is used to provide router redundancy on LANs. FRRouting supports versions 2 and 3 of the protocol. Our next release will not have this new protocol. It will ship in the subsequent release, around September/October. In the meantime it is available in our master Git branch. RFCs: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5798 <https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5798> https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3768 <https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3768> FRRouting documentation: http://docs.frrouting.org/en/latest/vrrp.html <http://docs.frrouting.org/en/latest/vrrp.html> Big thanks to everyone who worked with me on this new protocol daemon! Quentin

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FRR coming to Fedora
by Michal Ruprich 25 Apr '19

25 Apr '19

Hi all, I am happy to announce that I have started a review process for FRR to be added to Fedora[1]. After we figure out all the packaging details, FRR will be available in F29 and higher. I need to mention one important thing. I have added the latest version of FRR but *without* *babeld* and *ldpd* modules. These two modules are still having licensing issues and I will not include them in the distro unless all these issues are resolved. Regards, Michal Ruprich -------------------------------- [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1702720

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Announcing availability of PIM-EVPN BUM Handling
by Donald Sharp 25 Apr '19

25 Apr '19

All - I'd like to thank Anuradha for her work on integrating PIM-EVPN BUM handling in FRRouting. For those of you interested in using this feature you'll need a linux kernel > 5.0 to pick up some new features there. In addition you can read about how to configure here: http://docs.frrouting.org/en/latest/pim.html#pim-evpn-configuration thanks! donald

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7.0 release
by David Lamparter 13 Mar '19

13 Mar '19

Hi all, I'm very happy to announce we have released version 7.0 of FRRouting! [https://github.com/FRRouting/frr/releases] There are some major changes in this release, specifically libyang [https://github.com/CESNET/libyang] is now a hard requirement to build and run FRRouting. Here's the full list of major changes from 6.0.x to 7.0: - YANG data modeling & NETCONF support has arrived for the following daemons: - ripd - ripngd - isisd Note that this uses FRR-specific models and may still be subject to some changes. Feedback is strongly appreciated! - Error Codes / Categories are now added to log messages. They are printed as [EC 99999999999] on log messages and identify classes of errors. The library, bgpd, ospfd and zebra have been properly extended to categorize errors while the other daemons have somewhat more rudimentary cateogries. - "configure terminal" in the CLI is no longer an exclusive state on any daemon, i.e. multiple users can edit the configuration at the same time in all daemons. This was previously already the case for zebra and isisd. - BGP enhancements: - EVPN Duplicate Address Detection - EVPN route servers - EVPN extended mobility - Global IPv6 addresses can be used for RFC5549 (v4-over-v6) nexthops - Flowspec protocol support has been significantly extended. (Note that OS integration is still very incomplete.) - Add-Path IDs are now reused on transmission when possible - Aggregates now properly aggregate extended and large community attributes - IS-IS: - BFD support has been added - triggered hellos have been implemented - new daemon: OpenFabric (a datacenter variant of IS-IS - cf. https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-white-openfabric/) - Zebra's kernel/dataplane interface is undergoing a rewrite and parts have been moved into a separate thread with a more extensible architecture. Work on this project is ongoing. - staticd now supports onlink nexthops for static routes - sharpd now supports nexthop groups for route installs - many bugs were fixed, also including quite a few overdue documentation improvements. This also includes CVE-2017-3224 which is a low-severity low-impact OSPF vulnerability (as evident by the 2017 date.) Important packaging and build related changes: - libyang is now required to build and run FRRouting. Version 0.16.74 or newer (e.g. 0.16-r3 which is 0.16.105) is strongly recommended. Older versions will create additional hazards at both build and runtime because an extension module needs to be installed. Support for libyang versions before 0.16.74 will be removed in the next non-stable FRRouting version. - when using libyang before 0.16.74, make sure to specify the "--with-libyang-pluginsdir=/usr/lib/frr/libyang_plugins" option (change path to fit system) - Debian packaging has been completely overhauled (matches the changes in 6.0.2.) If you are creating derivative Debian packages, updates will be necessary. - RPKI and SNMP are now separate packages that can be installed additionally. There are no longer distinct "RPKI" and "no RPKI" versions of FRRouting on Debian. - Debian packages are now provided in a repository at: https://deb.frrouting.org/ - Snapcraft packaging has been updated to match. - There is a new "--enable-static-bin" option to link libfrr statically into FRR binaries. This is the only supported way of doing any static linking of FRR. ("--disable-shared" is NOT supported.) - all daemons now properly complete their startup before allowing their parent to exit when the -d daemonization option is used. This should remove the need for any "sleep" calls or start retrying in init scripts. - some minor non-reproducibility issues were fixed. FRRouting should now always build reproducibly. - the topotests system that was previously maintained separately is now shipped as part of the FRR source under tests/topotests. As you can see this is quite a changelog and I'd like to thank everyone who contributed to this release. It has been a very productive 6 months! Cheers, -David

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Fwd: [NetDev-People] 0x13: moonshot, Linux on Access Switches: Requirements & Features
by Donald Sharp 10 Feb '19

10 Feb '19

David - Congratulations on also being selected to present at NetDev! thanks! donald ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Jamal Hadi Salim via people <people(a)lists.netdevconf.org> Date: Sun, Feb 10, 2019 at 2:22 PM Subject: [NetDev-People] 0x13: moonshot, Linux on Access Switches: Requirements & Features To: people <people(a)netdevconf.org> Cc: <program-committee(a)netdevconf.org>, <equinox-netdevconf(a)diac24.net> The Linux kernel has successfully made its way across datacenter top-of-rack and spine switches. David Lamparter says the data centre is a friendly sane environment. You aint seen nothing yet. Campus distribution and access switches need to deal with a much more hostile environment. In this talk he intends to collate the currently relevant features for deploying campus and access environments. He will give some operational context, and suggest implementation strategies. https://netdevconf.org/0x13/session.html?talk-linux-switch-req-feat A note to all: Early bird registration is still open until Feb 20th. https://netdevconf.org/0x13/registration.html cheers, jamal _______________________________________________ people mailing list people(a)netdevconf.org https://lists.netdevconf.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/people

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FRRouting (6.0.2) now available in Debian buster/testing
by David Lamparter 10 Feb '19

10 Feb '19

Hi all, I'm pleased to announce FRRouting 6.0.2(-2) is now available in Debian testing (buster)! Please note that if you have an earlier version installed (e.g. from CI auto-packages), you will be auto-updated to 6.0.2 unless you mark the package for hold. It may be necessary to do this as the official Debian packages have been considerably cleaned up and reworked compared to 6.0 and older; there are some visible changes particularly in init scripts and startup behaviour. (These changes were merged in 6.0.1. If you already are at that or newer, the update should be smooth sailing.) Ubuntu has also auto-copied the package to their 19.04 / disco branch. This means that unless something unexpected happens, FRRouting will be available in the following upcoming distribution releases: - Debian 10 / buster (expected to become "stable" in 2~3 months) - Ubuntu 19.04 (expected to release end of April) If you have installed pre-release versions of either of these distributions, installing FRRouting is now a matter of doing a plain "apt install frr". FRRouting will very likely remain at the 6.0.x release train for both of these distributions. If you want to receive updates to newer major versions, manual intervention will still be needed (there might be a PPA/repo at some point.) Cheers, -David

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