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  • had a brief introduction of freeRouter networking Swiss army knife
  • learn how to deploy 2 instances of freeRouter and interconnect them via 2 UNIX sockets on a VM guest running on VirtualBox 
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title([ #001 ] RARE-/FreeRouter)-101 - [ #001 ] key take-away
  • FreeRouter is using UNIX socket in order to forward packet.

This is a key feature that will be leveraged to connect freeRouter control plane to any type of data-plane

  • In FreeRouter everything is in a VRF (so there is no global VRF)

This design choice has very positive consequences like: No VRF aware protocol,have multiple bgp processes (each bound to a different VRF) 

All the feature set is IPv4 and IPv6 compliant. So there is no compromised !

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