Please note: This repo is outdated and not maintained anymore.

looking-glass

Implements a Looking Glass for FRRouting.

Server side

Currently we use lg2http to fetch the JSON output from vtysh and forward the port to the remote server using autossh. This unitfiles are compatible starting from FRRouting v5.0 (vtysh -u parameter).

Unitfile for shell2http

[Unit]
Description=Starts the FRR LG daemon
After=network.target

[Service]
Type=simple
User=lg
WorkingDirectory=/home/lg/
Restart=on-failure
ExecStart=/home/lg/shell2http -form -host 127.0.0.1 -port 55500 \
        /neighbors      "sudo vtysh -u --vty_socket=/var/run/frr -c \"sh bgp nei json\"|grep -v \"Command not allowed\" " \
        /v4route        "sudo vtysh -u --vty_socket=/var/run/frr -c \"sh bgp ipv4 $v_route json\"|grep -v \"Command not allowed\" " \
        /v6route        "sudo vtysh -u --vty_socket=/var/run/frr -c \"sh bgp ipv6 $v_route json\"|grep -v \"Command not allowed\" "

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Unitfile for autossh

[Unit]
Description=AutoSSH tunnel service for LG
After=network.target

[Service]
User=lg
WorkingDirectory=/home/lg/
ExecStart=/usr/bin/autossh -M 0 -N -q -o "ServerAliveInterval 60" -o "ServerAliveCountMax 3" -p 22  -R 55500:localhost:55500 -i /home/lg/.ssh/id_rsa ##remoteserver##

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target