After moving to forgejo, i want to try the forgejo actions. First repo should be this website, which gets build with pelican, since this year.

The repo setup was quite easy, but the learning from my former drone-ci implementation to forgejo actions took me quite a view evenings to accomplish …

I'm moving from gitea to forgejo in my internal git server. Overall i build up a new git VM with forgejo, migrated the repos i wish on the new platform and leaving gitea as a archive vm for accessing my "archived" repos.

After several years of unmaintained running of my DN42 Nodes, i decided to reload (re-install, re-design, re-implement) my DN42 nodes. Maybe afterwards not all will be up anymore or do some other jobs.

The new design will incorporate some technologies i want to learn more:

• BGP with EVPN/VXLAN
• RR …

to be precise moving from jekyll to pelican as site generator!

I use some peerings types documented in my aut-num object within the registry, to be more exact, what theses peering times mean to me and for the peering partner i tried to explain wyh i use them as is use them. ( i leave out the IXP Type of peering as …

The last days i spent several hours to try Bird2 as FlowSpec Controller and hopefully the post helps others to avoid some of my challenges.

First what means Client/Controller in an FlowSpec environment?

• A FlowSpec Controller is able to create FlowSpec Rules and Actions and announce them via BGP …

For a better understanding here are the picture of my iBGP Mesh:

Every Peering has its own Bird Routing Table and i use pipes to leak from the Peering Tables to master. Following are the details of my iBGP Peerings/Templates and Filters. The lines indicates WireGuard VPN Links (purple …

First i had ipsec/gre for interconnecting my nodes itself, but now i completely switched to WireGuard. As it is really simple to setup (if you can compile an kernel module or use dkms), it is fast, high throughput and you don't need gre as with ipsec to use for …

Currently we had the following LAB generated:

• OVN-Central up & running
• kvmhost01 & 03 are connected as Chassis to OVN-Central
• Created an Logical Switch SERVER on OVN-Central

Before we go and create some VMs, we should discuss, how we want to interconnect them with the outside world. There are two major options …

While my tests with OVN i get a situation, where the next hop of my Entry Point (Logical Router) to OVN changed his mac (As it was an tap interface with no fixed MAC). And all i tried, the Logical Router doesn't seem to time out his ARP Cache.

I …