OpenBMC Network Route Management: Metric and Static Route config support

[raviteja bailapudi]

Hi Ratan
Yes, Clients will  have control on the routing table by configuring the
metric value while configuring IPv4 Static Address.

Regards,
Raviteja

On Thu, Jun 23, 2022 at 2:09 PM Ratan Gupta <ratankgupta31 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Raviteja,
>
> Are you mentioning that both the default gateways are pingable and the
> kernel picks up the one which is not desirable by you and you want to
> control which one to be picked up by configuring the metric value?
>
> Ratan
>
> On Wed, Jun 22, 2022 at 4:20 PM raviteja bailapudi <
> raviteja28031990 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Team
>>
>> We have hit network routing issues while using Static IPv4 addresses on
>> both eth0 and eth1,  as both default gateways at the interfaces were of the
>> same metric value. To solve this problem we are planning to provide an
>> interface for admins to set the metric value for the gateway while setting
>> up the Static IPv4 network on BMC.
>>
>>
>> To enable users to connect from outside-subnet clients, we also need to
>> support static routes on BMC.
>>
>>
>> I have started a thread in redfish forum as well
>>
>>
>> https://redfishforum.com/thread/683/network-routing-table-management-support
>>
>>
>> Please share your views on the same.
>>
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Raviteja
>>
>
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