From: Stefan Hanreich <s.hanreich@proxmox.com>
To: pve-devel@lists.proxmox.com
Subject: [PATCH access-control/cluster/network/proxmox{-ve-rs,-perl-rs} v2 00/34] Add support for route maps / prefix lists to SDN
Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2026 16:39:09 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260401143957.386809-1-s.hanreich@proxmox.com> (raw)
## Introduction
This patch adds support for managing route maps and prefix lists to the SDN
stack. With this patch series, route maps can be applied to the BGP and EVPN
controller for incoming / outgoing route filtering. There are currently some
other features in development that would make use of route maps as well, namely:
* VRF route leaking
* Route Redistribution for Fabrics
Prefix Lists can be used for matching inside route map match statements. They
are implemented so they can be used inside route map match statements for now.
FRR also provides access lists, which provide a subset of the functionality of
prefix lists. For that reason, we decided to omit access lists for now, since
everything can be modeled with prefix lists as well.
Ran this against the e2e test suite, with all tests passing!
## Motivation
There are a lot of use-cases for enabling users to create their own route-maps,
which was currently only possible by utilizing frr.conf.local - which was clunky
and prone to issues. Route maps can be used for filtering in/outgoing routes and
modifiy them, so users could e.g. only selectively advertise some routes via BGP
or only import certain EVPN routes from outside.
It also allows us to programmatically manage route maps via the UI, e.g. for
deeper EVPN integration in PDM. This opens up a lot of possibilities for
new features.
## Configuration Format
This patch series adds two new configuration files, route-maps.cfg and
prefix-lists.cfg in /etc/pve/sdn.
### route-maps.cfg
An example route map configuration looks as follows:
route-map-entry: example_123
action permit
match key=vni,value=23487
set key=tag,value=23487
This would create the following FRR route map entry:
route-map example permit 123
match evpn vni 23487
set tag 23487
Every entry in route-maps.cfg maps to an entry in a route map. They are
identified by their name as well as their ordering number. `example_123`
specifies the 123th entry in the route map 'example'. The main reason for
choosing this format is, that having a single section for one route-map would be
quite unwieldy. It'd require some format like this, which is pretty awkward to
handle / validate:
route-map-entry: example
action permit,seq=123
match key=vni,value=23487,seq=123
set key=tag,value=23487,seq=123
>From a UI POV editing singular route map entries seems better as well, and with
the mapping of section entries to route map entries, a suitable API design
follows quite naturally and easily maps to the respective section config
entries, without too much data mangling required.
### prefix-lists.cfg
An example prefix list configuration looks as follows:
prefix-list: example-1
entries action=permit,prefix=192.0.2.0/24
entries action=permit,prefix=192.0.2.0/24,le=32
entries action=permit,prefix=192.0.2.0/24,le=32,ge=24,seq=123
This would create the following FRR prefix list:
ip prefix-list example-1 permit 192.0.2.0/24
ip prefix-list example-1 permit 192.0.2.0/24 le 32
ip prefix-list example-1 seq 123 permit 192.0.2.0/24 le 32 ge 24
## API endpoints
This patch series introduces the following API endpoints in the /cluster/sdn
subfolder:
### Route Maps
GET /route-maps - lists all route map entries
GET /route-maps/<id> - lists all route map entries for the route map <id>
GET /route-maps/<id>/<order> - gets the order'th entry in route map <id>
POST /route-maps - creates a new route map entry
PUT /route-maps/<id>/<order> - updates the order'th entry in route map <id>
DELETE /route-maps/<id>/<order> - deletes the order'th entry in route map <id>
### Prefix Lists
GET /prefix-lists - lists all prefix lists
GET /prefix-lists/<id> - get prefix list <id>
POST /prefix-lists - create a new prefix list
PUT /prefix-lists/<id> - update prefix list <id>
DELETE /prefix-lists/<id> - delete prefix list <id>
## Open questions
How should we handle overriding the auto-generated route maps (e.g. in the EVPN
controller) and prefix lists?
Currently this patch series disallows creating any route map / prefix list that
have the same name as PVE auto-generated ones via the API. They can be
overridden by creating a new route map and then selecting it in the respective
entity (e.g. via route-map-in in the EVPN controller). Pre-defined prefix-lists
cannot currently be overridden, since this usually makes little sense, as they
are used in the auto-generated route maps, which can be overridden anyway.
This is the most restrictive option, which leaves the possibility of re-thinking
our approach depending on if this comes up in the future.
How should we handle setting custom route maps on exit nodes?
For exit nodes a special route map entry is generated that disallows importing
default routes to avoid traffic loops between exit nodes. With the current
implementation, those entries still get created and executed in order to make it
easy for users to use route maps on EVPN exit nodes. This also makes it
impossible to override this behavior, since a route map terminates with the
first matching entry. The proposed solution for this is a future patch series,
that allows defining multiple EVPN controllers and limit them to specific nodes.
Users could then manually build what we currently do on exit nodes together with
this patch series.
## Dependencies
proxmox-frr depends on proxmox-frr-templates
proxmox-frr depends on proxmox-sdn-types
proxmox-ve-config depends on proxmox-sdn-types
proxmox-ve-config depends on proxmox-frr
proxmox-perl-rs depends on proxmox-ve-config
pve-network depends on proxmox-perl-rs
pve-network depends on pve-cluster
Changes from v1 (Thanks @Gabriel, @Hannes, @Wolfgang):
* rebase on top of current master
* fix newly introduced vtysh tests
* include missing access-control patch
* fix an error in the permission API path of GET /route-maps/{route-map-id}
* fix permission check in list route maps / prefix lists endpoint
* implement From instead of Into for section config to frr conversions
* replace core::* imports with std::*
* improve comments in both pve-rs modules
* use get() instead of iter().find() in get methods of both pve-rs modules
* use entry API when creating new entities in both pve-rs modules
* removed duplicate PrefixList implementation block
* fixed pending parameter in GET endpoints
* add route maps / prefix lists to has_pending_changes method
* fixed change detection for newly introduced fields in prefix lists / route
maps
* fixed reserved id 'loopbacks_ips' for prefix lists (instead of reserving
loopback_ips)
* properly pass delete parameter to the route map update pve-rs method
* remove additional prefix list / route map rendering methods and just use dump
instead in the ve-config FRR integration tests
* improved documentation of the FRR route map generation logic, so it better
explains *how* the configuration gets merged.
* added another test-case for EVPN zones with a controller with custom route-map
+ exit nodes
* implement exit action and call features of route maps
* jump into user-supplied route maps instead of replacing them directly, to
avoid breaking exit-node setups if users do not recreate the auto-generated
route map
* improve indentation of FRR template
* update tests to reflect changes w.r.t. FRR config generation
* improve error message on trying to GET non-existing route map entry
* move the tests from the frr module in route maps / prefix lists to
the integration tests in proxmox-ve-config
* make order u16 instead of u32, because in FRR it is an u16 as well
* add unit tests to some new types
* change route map merging logic to overwrite existing route maps, if an entry
with the same route map name exists in the section config
* added separate patch for PrefixListName::new, since the vtysh patch from
gabriel hasn't been applied yet, but this patch series requires the new
function
pve-cluster:
Stefan Hanreich (2):
cfs: add 'sdn/route-maps.cfg' to observed files
cfs: add 'sdn/prefix-lists.cfg' to observed files
src/PVE/Cluster.pm | 2 ++
src/pmxcfs/status.c | 2 ++
2 files changed, 4 insertions(+)
pve-access-control:
Stefan Hanreich (1):
permissions: add ACL path for prefix-lists and route-maps
src/PVE/AccessControl.pm | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
proxmox-ve-rs:
Stefan Hanreich (13):
frr: add constructor to prefix list name
sdn-types: add common route-map helper types
frr: change order type to u16
frr: implement routemap match/set statements via adjacent tagging
frr: implement support for call and exit action
frr-templates: change route maps template to adapt to new frr types
ve-config: fabrics: adapt frr config generation
ve-config: add prefix list section config
ve-config: frr: implement frr config generation for prefix lists
ve-config: add route map section config
ve-config: frr: implement frr config generation for route maps
ve-config: add prefix lists integration tests
ve-config: add route maps integration tests
.../templates/route_maps.jinja | 19 +-
proxmox-frr/Cargo.toml | 2 +-
proxmox-frr/debian/control | 2 +
proxmox-frr/src/ser/route_map.rs | 108 ++-
proxmox-sdn-types/src/bgp.rs | 62 ++
proxmox-sdn-types/src/lib.rs | 179 +++++
proxmox-ve-config/src/sdn/fabric/frr.rs | 33 +-
proxmox-ve-config/src/sdn/mod.rs | 2 +
proxmox-ve-config/src/sdn/prefix_list.rs | 220 ++++++
proxmox-ve-config/src/sdn/route_map.rs | 728 ++++++++++++++++++
proxmox-ve-config/tests/prefix_lists/main.rs | 112 +++
proxmox-ve-config/tests/route_maps/main.rs | 146 ++++
12 files changed, 1561 insertions(+), 52 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 proxmox-sdn-types/src/bgp.rs
create mode 100644 proxmox-ve-config/src/sdn/prefix_list.rs
create mode 100644 proxmox-ve-config/src/sdn/route_map.rs
create mode 100644 proxmox-ve-config/tests/prefix_lists/main.rs
create mode 100644 proxmox-ve-config/tests/route_maps/main.rs
proxmox-perl-rs:
Stefan Hanreich (3):
pve-rs: sdn: add route maps module
pve-rs: sdn: add prefix lists module
sdn: add prefix list / route maps to frr config generation helper
pve-rs/Cargo.toml | 1 +
pve-rs/Makefile | 2 +
pve-rs/src/bindings/sdn/mod.rs | 30 ++-
pve-rs/src/bindings/sdn/prefix_lists.rs | 192 +++++++++++++++++
pve-rs/src/bindings/sdn/route_maps.rs | 262 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
5 files changed, 484 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 pve-rs/src/bindings/sdn/prefix_lists.rs
create mode 100644 pve-rs/src/bindings/sdn/route_maps.rs
pve-network:
Stefan Hanreich (15):
controller: bgp: evpn: adapt to new match / set frr config syntax
sdn: add prefix lists module
api2: add prefix list module
sdn: add route map module
api2: add route maps api module
api2: add route map module
api2: add route map entry module
evpn controller: add route_map_{in,out} parameter
bgp controller: allow configuring custom route maps
sdn: change detection for route maps / prefix lists
sdn: generate route map / prefix list configuration on sdn apply
tests: add simple route map test case
tests: add bgp evpn route map/prefix list testcase
tests: add route map with prefix list testcase
tests: add exit node with custom route map testcase
src/PVE/API2/Network/SDN.pm | 14 +
src/PVE/API2/Network/SDN/Makefile | 13 +-
src/PVE/API2/Network/SDN/PrefixLists.pm | 254 ++++++++++++++++++
src/PVE/API2/Network/SDN/RouteMaps.pm | 140 ++++++++++
src/PVE/API2/Network/SDN/RouteMaps/Makefile | 9 +
.../API2/Network/SDN/RouteMaps/RouteMap.pm | 93 +++++++
.../Network/SDN/RouteMaps/RouteMapEntry.pm | 138 ++++++++++
src/PVE/Network/SDN.pm | 30 ++-
src/PVE/Network/SDN/Controllers/BgpPlugin.pm | 24 +-
src/PVE/Network/SDN/Controllers/EvpnPlugin.pm | 42 +--
src/PVE/Network/SDN/Controllers/Plugin.pm | 14 +
src/PVE/Network/SDN/Makefile | 14 +-
src/PVE/Network/SDN/PrefixLists.pm | 134 +++++++++
src/PVE/Network/SDN/RouteMaps.pm | 192 +++++++++++++
.../expected_controller_config | 80 ++++++
.../expected_sdn_interfaces | 41 +++
.../bgp_evpn_routemap_prefix_list/interfaces | 7 +
.../bgp_evpn_routemap_prefix_list/sdn_config | 86 ++++++
.../evpn/routemap/expected_controller_config | 68 +++++
.../evpn/routemap/expected_sdn_interfaces | 41 +++
src/test/zones/evpn/routemap/interfaces | 7 +
src/test/zones/evpn/routemap/sdn_config | 70 +++++
.../expected_controller_config | 101 +++++++
.../expected_sdn_interfaces | 41 +++
.../zones/evpn/routemap_exit_node/interfaces | 7 +
.../zones/evpn/routemap_exit_node/sdn_config | 71 +++++
.../expected_controller_config | 53 ++++
.../expected_sdn_interfaces | 41 +++
.../evpn/routemap_prefix_list/interfaces | 7 +
.../evpn/routemap_prefix_list/sdn_config | 58 ++++
30 files changed, 1858 insertions(+), 32 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 src/PVE/API2/Network/SDN/PrefixLists.pm
create mode 100644 src/PVE/API2/Network/SDN/RouteMaps.pm
create mode 100644 src/PVE/API2/Network/SDN/RouteMaps/Makefile
create mode 100644 src/PVE/API2/Network/SDN/RouteMaps/RouteMap.pm
create mode 100644 src/PVE/API2/Network/SDN/RouteMaps/RouteMapEntry.pm
create mode 100644 src/PVE/Network/SDN/PrefixLists.pm
create mode 100644 src/PVE/Network/SDN/RouteMaps.pm
create mode 100644 src/test/zones/evpn/bgp_evpn_routemap_prefix_list/expected_controller_config
create mode 100644 src/test/zones/evpn/bgp_evpn_routemap_prefix_list/expected_sdn_interfaces
create mode 100644 src/test/zones/evpn/bgp_evpn_routemap_prefix_list/interfaces
create mode 100644 src/test/zones/evpn/bgp_evpn_routemap_prefix_list/sdn_config
create mode 100644 src/test/zones/evpn/routemap/expected_controller_config
create mode 100644 src/test/zones/evpn/routemap/expected_sdn_interfaces
create mode 100644 src/test/zones/evpn/routemap/interfaces
create mode 100644 src/test/zones/evpn/routemap/sdn_config
create mode 100644 src/test/zones/evpn/routemap_exit_node/expected_controller_config
create mode 100644 src/test/zones/evpn/routemap_exit_node/expected_sdn_interfaces
create mode 100644 src/test/zones/evpn/routemap_exit_node/interfaces
create mode 100644 src/test/zones/evpn/routemap_exit_node/sdn_config
create mode 100644 src/test/zones/evpn/routemap_prefix_list/expected_controller_config
create mode 100644 src/test/zones/evpn/routemap_prefix_list/expected_sdn_interfaces
create mode 100644 src/test/zones/evpn/routemap_prefix_list/interfaces
create mode 100644 src/test/zones/evpn/routemap_prefix_list/sdn_config
Summary over all repositories:
50 files changed, 3911 insertions(+), 87 deletions(-)
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2026-04-01 14:39 Stefan Hanreich [this message]
2026-04-01 14:39 ` [PATCH pve-cluster v2 01/34] cfs: add 'sdn/route-maps.cfg' to observed files Stefan Hanreich
2026-04-01 14:39 ` [PATCH pve-cluster v2 02/34] cfs: add 'sdn/prefix-lists.cfg' " Stefan Hanreich
2026-04-01 14:39 ` [PATCH pve-access-control v2 03/34] permissions: add ACL path for prefix-lists and route-maps Stefan Hanreich
2026-04-01 14:39 ` [PATCH proxmox-ve-rs v2 04/34] frr: add constructor to prefix list name Stefan Hanreich
2026-04-01 14:39 ` [PATCH proxmox-ve-rs v2 05/34] sdn-types: add common route-map helper types Stefan Hanreich
2026-04-02 13:36 ` Wolfgang Bumiller
2026-04-01 14:39 ` [PATCH proxmox-ve-rs v2 06/34] frr: change order type to u16 Stefan Hanreich
2026-04-01 14:39 ` [PATCH proxmox-ve-rs v2 07/34] frr: implement routemap match/set statements via adjacent tagging Stefan Hanreich
2026-04-01 14:39 ` [PATCH proxmox-ve-rs v2 08/34] frr: implement support for call and exit action Stefan Hanreich
2026-04-01 14:39 ` [PATCH proxmox-ve-rs v2 09/34] frr-templates: change route maps template to adapt to new frr types Stefan Hanreich
2026-04-01 14:39 ` [PATCH proxmox-ve-rs v2 10/34] ve-config: fabrics: adapt frr config generation Stefan Hanreich
2026-04-01 14:39 ` [PATCH proxmox-ve-rs v2 11/34] ve-config: add prefix list section config Stefan Hanreich
2026-04-01 14:39 ` [PATCH proxmox-ve-rs v2 12/34] ve-config: frr: implement frr config generation for prefix lists Stefan Hanreich
2026-04-03 7:42 ` Wolfgang Bumiller
2026-04-01 14:39 ` [PATCH proxmox-ve-rs v2 13/34] ve-config: add route map section config Stefan Hanreich
2026-04-01 14:39 ` [PATCH proxmox-ve-rs v2 14/34] ve-config: frr: implement frr config generation for route maps Stefan Hanreich
2026-04-01 14:39 ` [PATCH proxmox-ve-rs v2 15/34] ve-config: add prefix lists integration tests Stefan Hanreich
2026-04-01 14:39 ` [PATCH proxmox-ve-rs v2 16/34] ve-config: add route maps " Stefan Hanreich
2026-04-01 14:39 ` [PATCH proxmox-perl-rs v2 17/34] pve-rs: sdn: add route maps module Stefan Hanreich
2026-04-01 14:39 ` [PATCH proxmox-perl-rs v2 18/34] pve-rs: sdn: add prefix lists module Stefan Hanreich
2026-04-01 14:39 ` [PATCH proxmox-perl-rs v2 19/34] sdn: add prefix list / route maps to frr config generation helper Stefan Hanreich
2026-04-01 14:39 ` [PATCH pve-network v2 20/34] controller: bgp: evpn: adapt to new match / set frr config syntax Stefan Hanreich
2026-04-01 14:39 ` [PATCH pve-network v2 21/34] sdn: add prefix lists module Stefan Hanreich
2026-04-01 14:39 ` [PATCH pve-network v2 22/34] api2: add prefix list module Stefan Hanreich
2026-04-01 14:39 ` [PATCH pve-network v2 23/34] sdn: add route map module Stefan Hanreich
2026-04-01 14:39 ` [PATCH pve-network v2 24/34] api2: add route maps api module Stefan Hanreich
2026-04-01 14:39 ` [PATCH pve-network v2 25/34] api2: add route map module Stefan Hanreich
2026-04-01 14:39 ` [PATCH pve-network v2 26/34] api2: add route map entry module Stefan Hanreich
2026-04-01 14:39 ` [PATCH pve-network v2 27/34] evpn controller: add route_map_{in,out} parameter Stefan Hanreich
2026-04-01 14:39 ` [PATCH pve-network v2 28/34] bgp controller: allow configuring custom route maps Stefan Hanreich
2026-04-01 14:39 ` [PATCH pve-network v2 29/34] sdn: change detection for route maps / prefix lists Stefan Hanreich
2026-04-01 14:39 ` [PATCH pve-network v2 30/34] sdn: generate route map / prefix list configuration on sdn apply Stefan Hanreich
2026-04-01 14:39 ` [PATCH pve-network v2 31/34] tests: add simple route map test case Stefan Hanreich
2026-04-01 14:39 ` [PATCH pve-network v2 32/34] tests: add bgp evpn route map/prefix list testcase Stefan Hanreich
2026-04-01 14:39 ` [PATCH pve-network v2 33/34] tests: add route map with prefix " Stefan Hanreich
2026-04-01 14:39 ` [PATCH pve-network v2 34/34] tests: add exit node with custom route map testcase Stefan Hanreich
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