OpenBMC Network Route Management: Metric and Static Route config support

raviteja bailapudi raviteja28031990 at gmail.com
Thu Jun 23 19:02:35 AEST 2022


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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