[ixpmanager] Prevent announcement from specific peers to specific peers via RS

[Leon Meßner]

Hi Levi,

On Thu, 16 Jun 2016 08:36:09 -0500
Levi Pederson <levipederson at mankatonetworks.net> wrote:
> You could always implement communities in the bgp advertisements etc.

Can i do that via IXP-Manager? I would like to have some visibility of
this. Of course post-processing my RS bird.conf is the easiest way to
achieve this.

Thanks,
Leon
 
> 
> On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 8:34 AM, Leon Meßner
> <l.messner at physik.tu-berlin.de> wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > i'm in the process of setting up IXP-Manager for a small "non-profit
> > organizations only"-IXP. I'd like to prevent announcement of routes
> > between a specific set of peers via the RS.
> > Assuming there are two types of peers A and B, if you are in set A
> > you don't get routes from other peers in set A. If you are in set B
> > you get routes from all peers in A and B.
> > I probably have to implement this myself and i'm looking for the
> > most elegant or sane way to do this. I probably need to:
> >
> > 1) Add tinyint to vlaninterface table schema
> > 2) Edit application/modules/apiv1/controllers/RouterController.php
> > 3) Add element to
> >   application/views/vlan-interface/forms/vlan-interface.phtml
> > 4) Edit my router-cli/server/bird/neighbor.cfg
> >
> > I could also maintain the list out of IXP-Manager or misuse some
> > variable in the $int array which gets passed to neighbor.cfg and
> > build the bird filter from that, but i would like peers to have
> > easy access to that information. Perhaps even define a new customer
> > TYPE.
> >
> > Thanks for opensourcing your great tool guys.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Leon
> >
> >
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