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).
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- 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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| File | Description |
|---|---|
| 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. |
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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 |
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