Trex bird integration does not support evpn route type 5

[Haresh Khandelwal]

Hi,

I am trying to use BIRD to advertise and receive EVPN type 5 routes where the remote end is using FRR to advertise EVPN type 5 routes. I used the BIRD from the EVPN branch [1]. router id 192.168.122.101; protocol device { scan time 1; } eth table etab2; evpn table evpntab; protocol bgp my_bgp { local 12.12.12.2 as 64999; neighbor 12.12.12.1 as 64999; source address 12.12.12.2; multihop 1; hold time 180; keepalive time 60; ttl security; ipv4 { import all; export all; }; evpn; } protocol evpn my_evpn { eth { table etab2; }; evpn { }; vni 1001; rd 192.168.122.101:1001; route target (rt,64999,1001); } Here is my simple BIRD configuration file and it is being aborted with following error: # ./trex_bird -c cfg/evpn.conf -d bird: Started bird: unknown network type Aborted (core dumped) When I looked at what could have gone wrong, I realised I must provide both MAC and IP addresses for the routes. But don't we have type 5 - IP only support in BIRD? typedef union net_addr_evpn { struct { u8 type; u8 subtype; u16 length; u32 tag; u64 rd; byte data[0]; }; net_addr_evpn_ead ead; net_addr_evpn_mac mac; net_addr_evpn_mac_ip mac_ip; net_addr_evpn_imet imet; net_addr_evpn_es es; } net_addr_evpn; Can you please help me clarify if my understanding is right?

[1]: https://github.com/CZ-NIC/bird/tree/evpn/

Thanks

-Haresh