feat: BGP unnumbered fabric and mesh links - #2004
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Suggested reviewers: Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to This PR enables unnumbered fabric and mesh BGP links, but topology session lookup still relies on destination IPs that are empty for those links, so diagrams may show incorrect or missing session state; this correctness issue should be fixed before merge. The test helper also depends on unspecified list ordering, creating a bounded risk of false failures. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1❌ Failed checks (1 warning)
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In `@pkg/hhfab/hydrate.go`:
- Around line 965-971: Update the gateway neighbor reconciliation around the
IndexFunc block to remove every existing entry whose Source matches
neighbor.Source, then append exactly one current neighbor. Do not replace only
the first match or retain stale duplicates; preserve unrelated neighbors.
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ran release-test on env-5 to check the TH5 workaround with bgp unnumbered, it looks good: |
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pkg/hhfab/hydrate_test.go (1)
79-104: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winMake
linkIPsindependent ofkube.Listordering.
kube.Listdoes not guarantee the order ofConnectionobjects. The helper appends IPs in the returned order, while the tests compare exact slices at Lines 117-122 and Lines 146-149. Sortconns.Itemswith the same name ordering used byhydrate, or compare results by connection name.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@pkg/hhfab/hydrate_test.go`:
- Around line 79-104: Update linkIPs to produce deterministic output by sorting
conns.Items using the same connection-name ordering as hydrate before appending
IPs, or otherwise compare the collected addresses by connection name; preserve
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| // UnnumberedFabricLinks makes hydration leave fabric and mesh link IPs empty so | ||
| // those links run BGP unnumbered. Gateway links stay numbered. | ||
| UnnumberedFabricLinks bool `json:"unnumberedFabricLinks,omitempty"` |
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I think it's only used in hydration. We should make a flag for hydration-only and not populate runtime-level config
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I removed it from the runtime config, now it's only triggered by an env variable so we can test in CI / vlabs until we're confident
Hydration can leave fabric and mesh link IPs empty so those links run BGP unnumbered. Both IP fields being empty is what marks a link unnumbered, so nothing new is needed on Connection and the switch agents pick it up from the wiring. Gateway links stay numbered. Turn it on with HHFAB_UNNUMBERED_FABRIC_LINKS, parsed once when the config is loaded. It is off by default and meant to go away once unnumbered becomes the default. Hydration counts a leftover fabric or mesh IP as work still to do, so turning the toggle on for an existing wiring clears the old /31s under --hydrate-mode override. Freeing those /31s renumbers the gateway links, so gateway hydration now replaces the BGP neighbors for a port rather than appending to the list. Diagrams mark a link with no addresses as unnumbered. The session state still comes from the peer IP, so an unnumbered link shows as having no live data until we can read the state back from apiutil, which knows how the agent keys those sessions. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Emanuele Di Pascale <emanuele@githedgehog.com>
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In `@pkg/hhfab/diagram/topology.go`:
- Around line 773-778: Add a port-aware fabric API for unnumbered BGP session
lookup, using the neighbor status port rather than the empty destination IP;
update the topology handling around PropUnnumbered and apiutil.GetBGPNeighbors
to use it while preserving numbered-link behavior, and add a regression test
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| if ips.src == "" && ips.dst == "" { | ||
| link.Properties[PropUnnumbered] = "true" | ||
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| // TODO an unnumbered link has no peer IP to key the session by, so it | ||
| // shows as having no live data; read the state from | ||
| // apiutil.GetBGPNeighbors once the vendored fabric knows the keying |
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go.githedgehog.com/fabric v0.129.4 GetBGPNeighbors unnumbered BGP neighbor Port
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In the Hedgehog Fabric project (go.githedgehog.com/fabric), the GetBGPNeighbors function is part of the API and status reporting structure, not a mechanism for direct BGP unnumbered port configuration [1][2]. The Hedgehog Fabric documentation clarifies that BGP unnumbered is handled via configuration parameters rather than port-level properties within a GetBGPNeighbors function. Specifically: 1. Host-to-Fabric Connectivity: When attaching a host, BGP unnumbered sessions are established by specifying an interface (e.g., i=enp2s1) in the host configuration [3][4]. The system automatically manages the necessary BGP unnumbered peering on these interfaces [3][4]. 2. Gateway Connectivity: When adding Gateways to the fabric, BGP neighbors are defined in the Gateway resource, which includes an explicit source field (e.g., source: enp2s1) to map the neighbor session to a specific physical interface [5]. 3. API Representation: The SwitchStateBGPNeighbor structure, which reflects the state returned by fabric APIs, includes fields such as peerPort and various session states [2]. However, this is a read-only representation of the operational state of the BGP neighbor, not a configuration method [2]. There is no "GetBGPNeighbors unnumbered BGP neighbor Port" function in the Hedgehog Fabric codebase [1]. Configuration for BGP unnumbered is achieved declaratively through Kubernetes resources (ExternalAttachment, Gateway, or HostBGP settings) where the physical interface is explicitly bound to the BGP session [3][6][5].
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- 1: https://pkg.go.dev/go.githedgehog.com/fabric
- 2: https://docs.hedgehog.cloud/dev/reference/fabric-api/
- 3: https://docs.hedgehog.cloud/latest/user-guide/host-settings/
- 4: https://docs.hedgehog.cloud/dev/user-guide/host-settings/
- 5: https://docs.hedgehog.cloud/latest/user-guide/gateway-add/
- 6: https://docs.hedgehog.cloud/latest/user-guide/external/
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site:github.com/githedgehog/fabric "BGPNeighbors" "unnumbered"
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BGP unnumbered, often referred to as BGP over unnumbered interfaces, is a networking configuration practice that allows BGP peering to occur without requiring a specific IP address to be configured on the physical interface connecting two neighbors. Instead of using a dedicated subnet for the peering link, the BGP session is established using the interface name (e.g., Ethernet0, GigabitEthernet0/1) as the identifier for the neighbor. This approach simplifies network management by eliminating the need to assign and track IP addresses for point-to-point links between routers, which reduces configuration overhead and prevents address depletion in large-scale deployments. In this configuration, the router uses the IP address of its loopback interface or a local system interface as the source address for the BGP packets, while the neighbor session relies on the layer 2 connectivity provided by the unnumbered interface. While specific configuration syntax varies by vendor, the core concept involves: 1. Defining a BGP neighbor using an interface identifier rather than an IP address. 2. Relying on an underlying protocol or configuration (such as IPv6 link-local addresses in some implementations) to facilitate reachability between the peers without manual IPv4/IPv6 addressing on the interface itself. In the context of the provided technical documentation for the Hedgehog Fabric, BGP neighbor configurations typically involve explicit IP addresses and ASN definitions for external attachments [1][2], reflecting standard BGP neighbor setups rather than unnumbered interface configurations. The documented focus is on managing BGP peering states, ASN assignments, and related global neighbor policies such as drop neighbor aging timers [3].
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- 1: https://github.com/githedgehog/fabric/blob/master/docs/api.md
- 2: https://github.com/githedgehog/fabric/blob/v0.51.7/api/vpc/v1alpha2/externalattachment_types.go
- 3: GitHub pull request 1496 in githedgehog/fabric (link omitted to avoid creating a cross-reference)
Add a port-aware lookup for unnumbered BGP sessions.
For an unnumbered link, ips.dst is empty, so this path cannot reliably associate the session with the link by destination address. apiutil.GetBGPNeighbors v0.129.4 exposes BGPNeighborStatus.Port, but still keys expected neighbors by other.IP; it is not a per-port lookup. Add or consume a port-aware fabric API, and add a topology regression test.
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In `@pkg/hhfab/diagram/topology.go` around lines 773 - 778, Add a port-aware
fabric API for unnumbered BGP session lookup, using the neighbor status port
rather than the empty destination IP; update the topology handling around
PropUnnumbered and apiutil.GetBGPNeighbors to use it while preserving
numbered-link behavior, and add a regression test covering an unnumbered link
with live session state.
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the fix in fabric is in githedgehog/fabric#1588 but until that is merged and we bump the vendored fabric version in fabricator we cannot use that, so for now this is the best option I could think of
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@edipascale, understood. The current behavior is acceptable until githedgehog/fabric PR #1588 is merged and Fabricator updates its vendored Fabric version.
The finding remains a follow-up item. The dependency update should add the port-aware lookup and an unnumbered-link session-state regression test.
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Learning: For `pkg/hhfab/diagram/topology.go`, unnumbered fabric and mesh links currently cannot display live BGP session state because the vendored Fabric version lacks a port-aware BGP neighbor lookup. The upstream implementation is in githedgehog/fabric pull request `#1588`. Apply the topology lookup change after that pull request merges and Fabricator updates its vendored Fabric version.
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Add fabric.unnumberedFabricLinks and
hhfab init --unnumbered-fabric-linksto make hydration leave fabric and mesh link IPs empty so those links run BGP unnumbered. Both IP fields being empty is what marks a link unnumbered, so the switch agents pick it up from the wiring. Gateway links stay numbered. Default is off.Hydration also counts a leftover fabric or mesh IP as work still to do, so turning the flag on for an existing wiring clears the old /31s under --hydrate-mode override.
Gateway hydration now replaces the BGP neighbor for a port instead of appending to the list, since freeing the fabric and mesh /31s renumbers gateway links.
Diagrams label an unnumbered link with its session state, as there is no address to show.
Fix #2002