Hi, DPVS seems like a very nice project to work with. On Mon, Apr 4, 2022 at 10:12 AM Linhua Tang wrote: > Hi Victor, > > Thanks very much for your response. > > Do you mean set next-hop on BGP with Quagga or similar applications > through other NIC (not DPDK managed)? > > I looked at DPVS > , which > uses KNI to redirect traffic to Kernel so we can use Quagga or advertise > VIP. Do you think it's a better solution or implement ARP in the DPDK > application directly? > > Thanks. > > Best wishes, > Linhua Tang > > > On Mon, Apr 4, 2022 at 2:00 PM Victor Detoni > wrote: > >> Hi Linhua, >> >> First of all, you need to bind an IP address on NIC that DPDK manages. >> You can look at https://github.com/victordetoni/dpdk-l3fwd-acl this >> project and copy arp (line 644) and ip stack (line 2024). After that, you >> can set as next-hop on bgp the ip address that dpdk manages. >> >> Maybe it's not clear yet, but dpdk is a framework that allows you to >> create your own network apps. Search on google bgp projects that supports >> bgp, quagga etc. >> >> On Mon, Apr 4, 2022 at 7:29 AM Linhua Tang >> wrote: >> >>> Hi everyone, >>> >>> I'm new to DPDK, I have a question on how to announce VIP through BGP >>> for my LB based on DPDK. >>> >>> The design looks like this: >>> >>> - I have multiple hosts (virtual machines or physical machines), >>> every host advertising the same VIP, 10.0.0.10 for example. >>> - Each LB host has two NICs, one for DPDK, one for admin purposes. >>> - LB forward the packets to backend servers based on VIP >>> configuration >>> >>> >>> Normally, I use Bird or Quagga for BGP advertising, but I don't know how >>> to make BGP work with DPDK applications. Do I need to implement BGP within >>> the DPDK application? It looks overkilling to me. >>> >>> Looking forward to getting advice from you, or pointing me to any >>> references. >>> >>> Thanks very much. >>> >>> Best wishes, >>> James >>> >>