On 2015-06-12 16:38, Marius Petrescu wrote:
(Please trim inclusions from previous messages) _______________________________________________ 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