12 Jun
2015
12 Jun
'15
11:06 a.m.
On 2015-06-12 16:38, Marius Petrescu wrote:
(Please trim inclusions from previous messages)
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Marc, that is a completely different case.
The problem is the fact that first of all, IPIP tunnels can not be
point to
multipoint (you get an error if the remote tunnel endpoint is not
specified).
Second, on Mikrotik, the route can not be bound to a specific interface
lik
in 'ip route' since it does not have the 'dev' parameter. Destination
is
either an IP or an interface. One can not have both.
And third, if the gateway is not resolvable by a previous specific
route
(like in your example), then the system will issue an ARP, get no
response
and mark the route inactive.
On linux systems, this is solved by adding the parameter "onlink" to
the
route, which is not possible on RouterOS.
And of course, there is the big issue, if all those could be solved,
does
the IPIP driver consider the route an endpoint directive (like on
regular
Linux) or just an ordinary route, but this is of no importance right
now -
it probably does since it is a modern kernel.
OK. Seems like I misunderstood.
Anyway, I'm using the python amprapi script from
https://github.com/kd7lxl/python-amprapi, OK it is not RIP but AFAIK the
"Master" RIP daemon is also provisioned via scheduled file transfers, so
I just skip the detour via the RIP daemon and inject the routes directly
from the output of the APMR Portal API. The world isn't perfect and
neither is the implementation of the IPIP mesh on every single platform
(wether it's RouterOS or Linux), so anybody should just use his
preferred method. I had spare Routerboards lying around so why shouldn't
I use them?
I do think that regardless of the OS it is much more important that
anybody using 44net addresses shall support the IPIP mesh, regardless of
any other routing procedures (e.g. direct BGP announcement, etc) in use.
I have the "luxury" to be able to do direct BGP announcements, so I can
reach BGP-only 44networks without NATing my 44net to my commercial IP
address, others don't have this luxury but would eventually like to
reach those 44etworks without the requirement for NAT.
just my 2 cents :-)
Have a nice weekend.
vy 73 de Marc, LX1DUC