BGP Unnumbered support about netbox-bgp

[k01ek]

Hi @jlanclos! All data models should represent real world objects, bgp session in real world always has ip source and destination address. BGP Unnumbered is just a syntactic sugar in configuration. Device gets source and destination addresses from /31 or /32 prefix setted on the interface. What i can do with this plugin is make this "syntactic sugar" inside the plugin which will choise source and destionation addresses from interface prefix. But in that way you have to bind address to interface before create session.

[rasanentimo]

Does this mean that the IPv6 link-local addresses would need to be set to the interfaces which are used for the BGP sessions?

[ThomasADavis]

From playing with it, yes, you have to track the link-local to use this plugin if you doing truly unnumbered which means use dynamically assigned. We also assign an loopback address for VXLAN tunnels, so it appears that would have to be used to create all the unnumbered sessions. which grows quickly in an EVPN/VXLAN network..