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From: Lukas Sichert <l.sichert@proxmox.com>
To: pve-devel@lists.proxmox.com
Cc: Lukas Sichert <l.sichert@proxmox.com>
Subject: [PATCH perl-rs v5 08/10] fabrics: bgp: enable force_forwarding for ipv6 transit traffic
Date: Wed,  4 Nov 2026 15:55:09 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261104145513.21471-9-l.sichert@proxmox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261104145513.21471-1-l.sichert@proxmox.com>

In a non-full-mesh BGP-fabric setup, nodes may need to relay traffic
between peers that are not directly connected. This requires forwarding
ipv6 packets between fabric interfaces. With the addition of
'force_forwarding' to the Linux kernel, this can be done without
enabling 'all.forwarding', which disables Router Advertisements.

Configure fabric interfaces with the ifupdown2 ip6-force-forward flag.

Signed-off-by: Lukas Sichert <l.sichert@proxmox.com>
---
 pve-rs/src/bindings/sdn/fabrics.rs | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/pve-rs/src/bindings/sdn/fabrics.rs b/pve-rs/src/bindings/sdn/fabrics.rs
index 8413168..864e060 100644
--- a/pve-rs/src/bindings/sdn/fabrics.rs
+++ b/pve-rs/src/bindings/sdn/fabrics.rs
@@ -771,6 +771,7 @@ pub mod pve_rs_sdn_fabrics {
                             writeln!(interfaces, "iface {name} inet manual")?;
                             writeln!(interfaces, "\tip-forward 1")?;
                             writeln!(interfaces, "\tip6-forward 1")?;
+                            writeln!(interfaces, "\tip6-force-forward 1")?;
                             // BGP unnumbered uses RAs to discover peer link-local
                             // addresses. frr listens for them itself, but the kernel
                             // would otherwise install RA-derived routes we don't want.
-- 
2.47.3





  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-11-04 14:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-11-04 14:55 [PATCH many v5 00/10] sdn: enable force_forwarding for ipv6 forwarding Lukas Sichert
2026-11-04 14:55 ` [PATCH ifupdown2 v5 01/10] d/patches: add ipv6 force_forwarding for bridges Lukas Sichert
2026-11-04 14:55 ` [PATCH network v5 02/10] sdn: evpn: enable ip forwarding on the vrf bridge interface Lukas Sichert
2026-11-04 14:55 ` [PATCH network v5 03/10] sdn: evpn: enable force_forwarding for ipv6 forwarding to subnets Lukas Sichert
2026-11-04 14:55 ` [PATCH network v5 04/10] sdn: simple: " Lukas Sichert
2026-11-04 14:55 ` [PATCH network v5 05/10] tests: sdn: update fabric expectations for explicit ipv6 forwarding Lukas Sichert
2026-11-04 14:55 ` [PATCH perl-rs v5 06/10] openfabric: set ip6-forward explicitly Lukas Sichert
2026-11-04 14:55 ` [PATCH perl-rs v5 07/10] fabrics: openfabric: enable force_forwarding for ipv6 transit traffic Lukas Sichert
2026-11-04 14:55 ` Lukas Sichert [this message]
2026-11-04 14:55 ` [PATCH manager v5 09/10] ui: sdn: remove IPv6 forwarding hint from fabric edit window Lukas Sichert
2026-11-04 14:55 ` [PATCH docs v5 10/10] sdn: drop global ipv6 forwarding workaround from docs Lukas Sichert

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