[ixpmanager] Route Server Configuration

[Levi Pederson]

Nick,

Ah that makes much more sense as I was wondering about overlapping peering
vlans.

What part do I mouse over?

Thank you,

*Levi Pederson*
Mankato Networks LLC
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On Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 9:23 AM, Nick Hilliard <nick at inex.ie> wrote:

> Levi Pederson wrote:
> > ixpadmin at ixp:/usr/local/ixp/bin$ sudo ./ixptool.php -a
> > router-cli.gen-server-conf -p vlanid=235,target-bird,proto=4
> > --config==/home/ixpadmin/auto-rs1-v4-bird.conf
> > [sudo] password for ixpadmin:
> > PHP Notice:  Undefined offset: 1 in /usr/local/ixp/bin/ixptool.php on
> > line 143
> > ERROR: Invalid or no VLAN ID specified.
> > ixpadmin at ixp:/usr/local/ixp/bin$
>
> Hi Levi,
>
> There are two things here which are confusing: vlanid and the vlan
> number.  vlanid is the sql row ID of the vlan entry in the database and
> probably won't match the vlan number configured on your switch.  You can
> check out what vlanid you should use here by mousing over the edit field
> in the VLANs list:
>
> https://your.ixp/ixp/vlan/list
>
> This is not obvious and needs to be made a lot more obvious in the
> documentation.
>
> Incidentally, the reason we don't use the vlan tag number of the IXP
> switches is that some IXPs have multiple ixp infrastructures with
> overlapping VLAN IDs.
>
> Nick
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