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BIRD: VXLAN data plane support#3504

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Pull request overview

This PR adds VXLAN data-plane support for the BIRD daemon device type, enabling netlab to generate and apply VXLAN Linux dataplane configuration when BIRD is used as the control-plane daemon (primarily in containerlab).

Changes:

  • Enable VXLAN as a required dataplane configuration step for BIRD in clab, and advertise VXLAN IPv6 VTEP capability.
  • Add a BIRD VXLAN dataplane template that reuses the existing VXLAN FRR shell script and signals completion to the dataplane wait mechanism.
  • Update documentation to reflect VXLAN dataplane support for BIRD.

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netsim/daemons/bird.yml Enables VXLAN dataplane coordination for BIRD in clab and declares VXLAN feature support (vtep6).
netsim/ansible/templates/vxlan/frr.j2 Removes a trailing exit $? to allow reuse via template inclusion.
netsim/ansible/templates/vxlan/bird.j2 New VXLAN dataplane script for BIRD: includes VXLAN Linux script and touches /var/run/vxlan.done.
docs/platforms.md Updates platform support tables to list BIRD VXLAN dataplane support.
docs/module/vxlan.md Adds BIRD to VXLAN module platform support matrix.

Comment thread netsim/daemons/bird.yml
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initial:
roles: [ host, router ]
config_mode: [ sh ]
# dataplane_config: [ vxlan ]
dataplane_config: [ vxlan ]
libvirt: # Not yet available on libvirt or virtualbox
ipspace added a commit that referenced this pull request Jun 20, 2026
@ipspace ipspace merged commit bf4e8e2 into dev Jun 21, 2026
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@ipspace ipspace deleted the bird-vxlan branch June 21, 2026 05:45
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