Basic Configuration & Concepts

The following section shows how to configure BGP basics, how to verify functionality and presents essential components of the plugin. Next samples demonstrate the plugin’s runtime configuration capability. It shows the way to configure the plugin via REST, using standardized OpenConfig BGP APIs.

Configuration

BGP RIB API

This tree illustrates the BGP RIBs organization in datastore.

bgp-rib
  +--ro rib* [id]
     +--ro id         rib-id
     +--ro peer* [peer-id]
     |  +--ro peer-id                  peer-id
     |  +--ro peer-role                peer-role
     |  +--ro simple-routing-policy?   simple-routing-policy
     |  +--ro supported-tables* [afi safi]
     |  |  +--ro afi             identityref
     |  |  +--ro safi            identityref
     |  |  +--ro send-receive?   send-receive
     |  +--ro adj-rib-in
     |  |  +--ro tables* [afi safi]
     |  |     +--ro afi           identityref
     |  |     +--ro safi          identityref
     |  |     +--ro attributes
     |  |     |  +--ro uptodate?   boolean
     |  |     +--ro (routes)?
     |  +--ro effective-rib-in
     |  |  +--ro tables* [afi safi]
     |  |     +--ro afi           identityref
     |  |     +--ro safi          identityref
     |  |     +--ro attributes
     |  |     |  +--ro uptodate?   boolean
     |  |     +--ro (routes)?
     |  +--ro adj-rib-out
     |     +--ro tables* [afi safi]
     |        +--ro afi           identityref
     |        +--ro safi          identityref
     |        +--ro attributes
     |        |  +--ro uptodate?   boolean
     |        +--ro (routes)?
     +--ro loc-rib
        +--ro tables* [afi safi]
           +--ro afi           identityref
           +--ro safi          identityref
           +--ro attributes
           |  +--ro uptodate?   boolean
           +--ro (routes)?

BGP pipeline

BGP pipeline.

BGP pipeline - routes re-advertisement.

BGP Application Peer pipeline.

BGP applcaition peer pipeline - routes injection.

References