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Regarding Quagga NHRP
Hello All,

I am trying to set up a mesh network with Quagga NHRP.

I could achieve HUB/SPOKE network topology working with NHRP. But I
could not achieve true mesh topology, where spoke-to-spoke communication
will happen directly instead of going through HUB.

Does Quagga NHRP support spoke-to-spoke neighbor pair with NHRP?

Does anyone tried and achieved full mesh with Quagga/NHRP?

I have tried "opennhrp" and could achieve full mesh, But I couldn't
integrate it with strongswan.

Please advise which one is a better one to go with.

Thanks in advance.

Regards,
Sridhar
Re: Regarding Quagga NHRP [ In reply to ]
Hi,

On Fri, 5 Apr 2019 15:32:34 +0530
pothuganti sridhar <pothuganti.sridhar@gmail.com> wrote:

> I am trying to set up a mesh network with Quagga NHRP.
>
> I could achieve HUB/SPOKE network topology working with NHRP. But I
> could not achieve true mesh topology, where spoke-to-spoke
> communication will happen directly instead of going through HUB.
>
> Does Quagga NHRP support spoke-to-spoke neighbor pair with NHRP?

Yes.

> Does anyone tried and achieved full mesh with Quagga/NHRP?

Yes.

> I have tried "opennhrp" and could achieve full mesh, But I couldn't
> integrate it with strongswan.
>
> Please advise which one is a better one to go with.

OpenNHRP has been deprecated, and superseded with Quagga/NHRP.

Have you read
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/quagga.git/tree/nhrpd/README.nhrpd ?

Especially the portion on "Hub functionality" on how to configure Hub
iptables & nhrpd to send the Traffic Indications which are essential
for shortcut tunnels to be established.

Timo
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Re: Regarding Quagga NHRP [ In reply to ]
Hello Timo,

Thanks for your reply. Now I could able to establish a mesh network.

Initially, I had added some manual routes for communication between spokes
through Hub. This is the mistake I have done. After configuring BGP for
routing instead of static routes, I could able to establish the mesh.

Thanks,
Sridhar

On Fri, Apr 5, 2019 at 6:16 PM Timo Teras <timo.teras@iki.fi> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Fri, 5 Apr 2019 15:32:34 +0530
> pothuganti sridhar <pothuganti.sridhar@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I am trying to set up a mesh network with Quagga NHRP.
> >
> > I could achieve HUB/SPOKE network topology working with NHRP. But I
> > could not achieve true mesh topology, where spoke-to-spoke
> > communication will happen directly instead of going through HUB.
> >
> > Does Quagga NHRP support spoke-to-spoke neighbor pair with NHRP?
>
> Yes.
>
> > Does anyone tried and achieved full mesh with Quagga/NHRP?
>
> Yes.
>
> > I have tried "opennhrp" and could achieve full mesh, But I couldn't
> > integrate it with strongswan.
> >
> > Please advise which one is a better one to go with.
>
> OpenNHRP has been deprecated, and superseded with Quagga/NHRP.
>
> Have you read
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/quagga.git/tree/nhrpd/README.nhrpd ?
>
> Especially the portion on "Hub functionality" on how to configure Hub
> iptables & nhrpd to send the Traffic Indications which are essential
> for shortcut tunnels to be established.
>
> Timo
>