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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark@mastodon.social
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today in "draw the rest of the fucking owl"

Establish BGP session and configure routing To use the anycast addresses, you need to establish a BGP session. A specific node can be connected to a single AnycastIP router (IPv4 and IPv6 session) at a given time. You can have multiple nodes per region - all our routers support ECMP. [1. Install desired routing software (for example, FRRouting, BIRD, Quagga, ExaBGP etc.)] 2. Get the IP addresses of our router in the given region (see below) and configure BGP sessions using the following details
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@whitequark@mastodon.social
✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark@mastodon.social
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chat what's your fave BGP software

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@manawyrm@chaos.social
Manawyrm | Sarah 🔜 DHCP25 @manawyrm@chaos.social
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@whitequark bird2 if you want it to work (well).

if you have to do EVPN (and then I‘ll pray for your soul), you might have to use FRR.

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@whitequark@mastodon.social
✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark@mastodon.social
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@manawyrm what is EVPN?

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@fluepke@chaos.social
Flüpke @fluepke@chaos.social
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@whitequark @manawyrm

It’s the control plane for VxLAN, for announcement of MAC addresses. Overloads the tiny CPU in common switches in an promise to further scale L2 networks that had grown too big

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